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[pantryslut]

Thanks, gerardp, for this link to an article by Michael Pollan in the NYT about food choices, nutrition, and a very smart "rule of thumb: if you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat."

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[susannochka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link!
Someone just sent me this:
http://www.mouthrevolution.com/
It's extreeemely silly, but says pretty much the same thing.

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

I've been mulling over his advice to not eat anything my great-great grandma wouldn't have recognized as food.

It made me wonder about the foodways of my particular great-great grandmothers. What did they eat and in what quantities and in what ratios? I know that they must have all had buttermilk and cornbread (I'm not sure about the Pennsylvania German one, but she might have as well). Which veggies and how prepared? Which meats and how often?

I can't eat like that in my own home, since I've agreed to a vegetarian household, and won't have access to all the salt pork and bacon that they used. I do have a cast iron skillet, though. I suppose that's a start.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I'm really not sure at all what the foodways of my great-great grandparents would have been.