The Office: A Food Minefield

2024-03-13T10:23:18-07:00By |

The workplace food environment can be perilous, especially as we move into the fall-winter "food holidays." It starts with Halloween, when everyone likes to bring their extra candy to work to "get it out of the house." That rolls right on to the pre-Christmas free-for-all (which doesn't even wait for Thanksgiving to be over, anymore).

Getting cultured

2024-03-13T10:23:33-07:00By |

I had a question from a reader about Nancy's Yogurt. I had mentioned that people should look for the "Live and Active Cultures" seal on their yogurt to make sure that the probiotic bacteria in the yogurt have not been killed by heat processing (if they aren't alive when you eat them, they have no chance of improving your intestinal bacteria population).

Survival of the fittest

2024-03-13T10:23:34-07:00By |

A reader asked me how probiotics and fermented foods make it through the stomach digestive acids. It's an excellent question. I mean, our stomach and small intestine digest our food, why wouldn't they digest any passing bacteria? It's true, our digestive tract is a harsh environment, full of acids and digestive enzymes, but some bacteria are up to the task.

Books For New Cooks

2024-03-13T10:23:49-07:00By |

This is an update of an earlier post in which I tried to limit myself to selecting five cookbooks from my library that I thought would be good for newbie cooks. I didn’t quite hit the mark, as you can see. And I’m adding one more that I’ve recently acquired. What can I say, other than, “Hello, my name’s Carrie and I’m a cookbook addict.”

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