Tofu Misozuke – something new to try! Rau Om’s Amazing, Cheese-Like Tofu Misozuke | What the Fork | East Bay Food and Restaurant News. Rau Om site – including their 2011 version of the recipe. And the Rau Om recipe with lots of comments on the Recipe Renovator site. And the Post Punk Kitchen Forum…
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Taste
November eNews: Be Part of a Moving Experience. Did You Know? The concept of a tongue map showing distinct areas specializing in sour, sweet, bitter, and salty taste stems from the mistranslation of a paper written by researcher D. P. Hanig in 1901. Hanig’s original tongue map showed that all areas were sensitive to the…
Teas
Pukka Tea Pukka love: okay, okay but pretty weak second soak Pukka relax: ennh, not good second soak Pukka refresh: ennh, not good second soak
Kashi® Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies
Kashi : Our food : Kashi® Cookies, Chocolate Almond Butter. Kashi (an independently operated subsidiary of Kellogg Company; based in La Jolla, California) makes a number of packaged food products including breakfast cereal and grain bars. In April 2012 Kashi received bad publicity over its use of GMO ingredients, most notably soy. In parallel with…
Nutriate Market Data
From the 2012 September 11 edition of Food Business News an article on PepsiCo’s snack segmentation strategy, the US premium salty snack market is $2B. From the 2012 September 17 print edition of the Christian Science Monitor “Prime Numbers” column, the Organic Trade Association says that the current size of the US organic, fresh produce…
Ingredients to Avoid
Refer to Product and Vendor Selection Criteria. various 2016 An article in Food Processing on 2016 March 22 lists five controversial ingredients that some processors are avoiding – but which the US FDA (as this time still) considers safe. brominated vegetable oil (BVO) BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) nitrites and nitrates aspartame high-fructose…
Vitamin D
Article on Vitamin D and using full spectrum lighting to combat seasonal depression and sunlight to combat problems associated with inadequate Vitamin D absorption. Vitamin D-rich foods: Per CNP, exposing prepped / chopped raw mushrooms to 15 minutes of sunlight before cooking in order to greatly increases the cooked mushrooms’ Vitamin D content. (Exposure to…
Dental Care
Toothpaste Sensitivities Symptoms Receding gums Hot / cold sensitivities Mucous and congestion Mouth ulcers Diarrhea ameliorate http://www.jcadonline.com/2487/toothpaste-allergy-diagnosis-and-management/ x References Diary of a reluctant allergy sufferer: Toothpaste free xx
Nutrition Tools and Resources
SuperTracker SuperTracker is the free tool provided by the USDA to plan and track diet and exercise choices. The tool is geared to a pretty standard American diet – compared to a tool such as NutritionData, SuperTracker has a small range of food items and preparations in its database. When applicable, for a particular food…
Whole Foods and Cooking Oil
Used Cooking Oil Fuels Whole Foods’ Commissary – Green Retail Decisions. Nice that Whole Foods is making good reuse of cooking oil; not so nice that Whole Foods and other local restaurants are still using so much cooking oil. And what measures has this Whole Foods facility taken to require less energy?