While I work on other posts that help you make real food, please take a few minutes (it is long, but riveting) to read this New York Times article how the junk food industry formulates their products! Illuminating, scary, weird science, indeed! Just click on the header, or the picture and you should get there.
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It was another summer Friday in the neighborhood and that called for another festive cocktail. Riding high on the success of last session’s passionfruit mojitos, I decided to make mango mojitos. The drink itself followed much the same construction, but the mango was decidedly sweeter than the passionfruit, so I decided that it needed a […]
Summer evenings in the neighborhood can be wonderful. Occasionally on a Friday some of us neighbors bring out folding chairs and sit together in one front yard for a bit of happy hour while the kids go mental on someone else’s lawn. It’s pretty much BYO, but we do mix up a pitcher of experimental […]
We spent the better part of last summer in Puerto Rico, and among the tasty things that my little guy fell in love with was tembleque, a jiggly (temblar means to tremble) dessert that falls somewhere between pudding and flan. I promised him we’d make it back in New York, and this weekend, for a […]
When the heat gets tropical, so should the drinks. On a recent trip to the mountains of Puerto Rico, I was inspired by a wonderfully cooling and exotic sangría I had up around and about El Yumque (Caribbean National Forest, the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. Forest Service system) at Noelia’s, recommended to us […]
There are a number of land crab species skittering about Caribbean coastlines. Some are edible and the one we eat most here in Puerto Rico (although I am told they mostly are imported from Venezuela these days) is Cardisoma guanhumi which we call juey and — if you are English-speaking — you might call the […]
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Fascinating stuff! I am actually planning to do a revamp of my eating habits… articles like this inspire me, even though I do eat loads of veggies and almost exclusively home cooked meals/treats. I know I could eat far healthier and more consciously than I already do.
Part of what kills me is how they manipulate our baser natures…Thans for the visit…and WELCOME BACK!!!
Absolutely! It’s quite evil!
Thank you so much- I hope to be around more! xx
The sad thing is that most people buying junk food know it’s bad for them!
We currently have a huge ready meal scandal in Europe – they’ve been finding horse meat in beef burgers, lasagne, bolognese, ravioli, etc. Personally I don’t object to eating horse, but when the label says beef the product shouldn’t contain something else.
People need to get back in touch with what they eat and not rely on unscrupulous manufacturers.
I cook from scratch everyday, or at the very least, freeze my own food to eat on days when I’m in a hurry. I know it’s better quality, but my main reason for doing so is that it tastes superior to mass produced junk 😉
This is why Jamie Oliver is such a hero of mine. He encourages people to actually cook. It is rapidly becoming my life’s mission. People like us know how to make good decisions and have the power of the kitchen utensils behind us. So many people today do not have that power.
Sadly I think that some people eat to live while others live to eat. If you are just eating to live, you don’t necessarily care what the food is 😦
true. but “to live” can be very much enhanced by decent food (even if you are not fussed about how it tastes!)