Buying beef can be intimidating, and the choices you make are fraught with politics. It’s hard to even know where to begin. There are so many things about the meat industry that are unfathomably despicable, and gross. Not gross enough for me to consider becoming vegetarian, but gross enough

Buying food Last week I hit the first of (probably) several…speed bumps? It was a place in the book where I had loosely outlined what I wanted to write about, but it was nowhere near coherent and probably happened sometime in the middle of the night after several whiskeys.

Getting your kitchen ready to use by stocking it with a variety of pots, pans, skillets and other tools will greatly increase your enjoyment. Did you have Legos growing up? Just in case you didn’t, let me remind you how Lego sets were packaged. When you got a new

A whirlwind of opinions and lists and lists of opinions What is it we’re starting, exactly? We’re starting our journey together into food, to make it less complicated. We’ll shop for groceries, prep food, cook it, and, most importantly, shove it into our mouth holes. As a

If you really like Paleo or Olive Garden I'm sorry, I'm a jerk. The solution, obviously, is to start working on these on Tuesdays then apply the finishing touches on Wednesdays, then schedule them for a reasonable time. Can’t seem to do that, so here

How I used to eat and how I stumbled into the world of fad diets and food snobbery One day I’ll either write a reusable intro paragraph or give up and write a fresh paragraph of housekeeping notes every week, but for now I’ll start with another housekeeping

A list of five areas of your food lyfe you can change, if you want. Before I pick up where I left off, I’d like to start with a little backstage look at the way I imagined converting my first draft of a book into an email newsletter. My

Eat the giant breakfast burrito...provided the eggs were hand-selected from a chicken that gave express written consent. I ended the last post with “Don’t forget, you can buy and eat whatever you like.” I stand by that, but I want to acknowledge that if you have a food

Eating is something everyone has to do multiple times a day.