Is sugar a toxin?

Some researchers are arguing that we should call sugar a toxin, tax it, etc.

Another reason to buy from a farmers market

It doesn't come as a newsflash that mistreated food industry workers, really poor people who have to come to work sick, are highly correlated with outbreaks of food-borne illness.

Beef brisket

I always wanted to make a brisket, so I read 10 recipes and winged it. The meat came out delicious and tender. I used grass fed beef from Whole Foods.

First I studded it with garlic, added salt and pepper, then seared each large surface.

I used white onions, fresh rosemary and thyme, and vegetable broth and cooked on low in a 250 oven for about eight hours. The meat came out so soft that it didn't need slicing. I used some of the broth to braise red cabbage.

Hot sauce with cranberries

That's not cranberry sauce, that's hot sauce. Originally I wanted to try something like this recipe, only without canola oil and sugar.

I roasted jalapenos and garlic and boiled my cranberries with tangerine segments, then blended the peppers and garlic and added it to the cranberries.

Fresh Oregano

Herbs and spices are my favorite ways to give oomph to healthy food. A bunch of oregano was $1, and has lovely health benefits, including anti-inflammatory action.

Fresh melt-in-your-mouth black cod from Santa Monica seafood with fresh oregano


Roasted eggplant, onions and garlic with fresh oregano

Salsa verde my way

Roasted tomatillos, white onion, green pepper, jalapeno, and garlic with cumin and black pepper. Blended on high for a creamier salsa.


Shown on my breakfast of eggs and greens.

Bear (and beef) burgers

I used olive oil, finely chopped white onion, and dentes de perro peppers (below) given to me by an incomprehensible but sweet fellow at the French Market in New Orleans, and garlic. I chopped and smashed the peppers with the oil, cumin and paprika. I used an egg to bind the burger and I grilled them on my stovetop cast iron piece.




The beef is 15% fat (left). I estimate the bear at 45-55% fat. What a find. This was the most delicious burger I ever ate.