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Category Archives: Rant
Why I Cook
Dicing Onion, photo by Donna
I posted yesterday on twitter that I began cooking because I was hungry but continued to cook because I loved to eat, and it got me thinking. There are so many different reasons to cook, as a number of twitters pointed out. Self-defense was a good one! And with the state [...]
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What Salt Should I Use?
Equal weights of different salts, photo by Donna. Notice the difference in volume between the kosher and fleur de sel.
After my minor salt rant, a number of people asked which salt to use and what I thought about various salts. There are a mind-numbing array of salts out there, even big blocks of salt you [...]
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Salt. Is It Good Or Bad?
Photo by Donna
The salt issue. People keep bringing it up as though it’s news.
A new report says reduce your salt by 1/2 teaspoon a day and you will be more healthy (as though that alone would do it).
The fact is, we have struggled to make our food so inexpensive that we’ve basically decided to grow [...]
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America: Too Stupid To Cook
Photo by Donna
When she said it to me, it rang in my head clear as a bell. I’ve repeated it a hundred times. I was talking with Carol Blymire last spring about Ratio, and how to promote it. I was biting my knuckles over this, terrified no one would understand it or even care—it used [...]
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Salt Research Nonconclusive