Healthy Breakfast Ideas

If I hear someone say breakfast is the most important meal one more time, I’m gonna’ bean ’em with my bran muffin. Every meal is important if you’re interested in health. With the incidence of diabetes on the rise, it’s very important that we have a balanced and stable amount […]

Is Hamster Kosher?

Kosher food and kosher cooking seems to be more popular than ever. Many people assume that “kosher” means “healthy.” Actually, the Hebrew word “kasher” means “proper.” The term refers to ingredients and animals that are determined to be “proper” according to the Hebrew Bible or “Torah.” The three criteria set […]

Three Vegetarian Dinner Recipes

Vegetarian dinner recipes are getting easier and easier to find now that many people are more focused on their available healthy choices. Vegetarians and meat eaters alike will love to add these three recipes into their general dinner recipes box. The following three recipes are tasty and quick to make. […]

Deconstructing Non-Sustainable Agriculture

The Green Revolution refers to the dramatic increase in the production of food calories occurring with the following developments I) selective breeding of high yielding crops, which also display added resistance to common diseases; ii) widespread use of fertilizers and pesticides; iii) mechanization of crop harvesting. Beginning in the 1940’s, […]

Coppiette – Italy’s Answer to Beef Jerky

Every year, spread over the first ten days in May, the Festival of the Coppiette is held in the town of Marcellina, some thirty kilometres north east of Rome in the province of Lazio. Organized by the Committee of the Butteri (mountain herders), it mirrors simultaneous celebrations dedicated to the […]