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Archive for July, 2011
Veggie Wars – PART II
Last July a post entitled Veggie Wars included a video spoof featuring a formidable cast of Star Wars veggies fighting the good fight against ‘Darth Tator’ and the Evil Empire. A recent video (below) serves to remind us why we must continue to fight the good fight.
Revisit our Veggie War post as well as a revealing post of August 27, 2010 – Monday Mornings… a Story Behind the Numbers. These two (as with all posts on this blog) lend perspective to the following video produced by our local Oregon advocacy group, OSPIRG.
As health care professionals, both Lorie & I have witnessed first hand the unavoidable aftermath of unhealthy eating habits. We ARE what we consume. As this OSPIRG video notes, unhealthy eating habits are subsidized by an equally unhealthy, indecent yet cozy partnership of Corporate Enterprise and Governance (local, state and federal–the ‘Empire’ if you will).
Be on the healthy side of statistics: Cook healthy, eat honestly, and thrive!
The Fattening of America—Subsidized Obesity & Disease.
The People’s Congress of our founding fathers has long been co-opted by US Corporate interests, and this mutated governance continues to pervert the moral fiber of common decency. Our best interests will be well served should The People rise up, intervene, irradiate and re-regulate this Corporate malignancy—the unhealthy symptoms and consequences of which are costly and devastating.
Favorite To Cook With
My god mother is a phenomenal cook. She can make just about anything under the sun. Everything that she makes is free hand. Following a recipe is not her forte.
Her favorite pan to cook with is her skillet. For years she has cooked, fried and sauteed, stewed and souped, baked and chafed using her worn Stainless Steel skillet. The old pan is her partner, her trusted friend.
She believes, because the pan is so old, it’s fully ‘seasoned’ and that’s what makes her meals so tasty & true. It’s not for me to suggest otherwise, but Stainless Steel doesn’t ‘season’ as is required for cast iron ware for example.
I mean, I could on and explain:
Stainless Steel is non-porous, non-corrosive and not-toxic. There are no microscopic holes to ‘season’ or fill with hardened fats. No matter how well a porous cast iron surface is ‘seasoned’, it still retains a porous environment that harbors bacteria.
Stainless Steel is the most hygienic cooking surface on the market–it won’t peel, chip or erode; it won’t fume toxins, retain stain, harbor bacteria or emit metallic residues or tastes.
The best cooking utensils for sure, but my god mother has her own perspective worthy of my respect. And very true I confess; no matter my attention to ingredients, measures and recipes, I can’t replicate her simply delicious creations.
I’d love to be creative like her. I just don’t think it’s at the top of my DNA.
Cook healthy, eat honestly, and thrive.
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