If you’re a foodie, it doesn’t get much better than Asian street food. The sounds of sizzling woks, grilling meats, bubbling curries, and simmering soups mingling with the fragrant aromas and bright colors of fresh chilies, spices, lemongrass, fruits, and exotic vegetables of all shapes and sizes is a feast for the senses. Experiencing Asian […]
That’s my sweet pup, Lipton, in the picture above. Isn’t she a beauty? I think she’s the most adorable dog ever, though I may be a little biased about that. We’ve been trying out an organic bone broth made specifically for dogs recently. Bone broth for dogs is becoming quite popular and for good reason. […]
In case you were guessing, the little-known nutrient in seafood soups is NOT omega-3s. Everyone knows about the health benefits of omega-3s. I know it. You know it. Your mother knows it. My mother knows it. Every doctor, every health website and every major health organization has been telling us this for decades now. Heck […]
For decades we’ve been told mercury in seafood is a concern. On the surface, it sure makes sense. Though mercury occurs naturally in the environment, industrial sources like coal burning power plants increases mercury in the atmosphere which settles in our waterways and gets consumed by fish. Larger fish eat smaller fish and so it […]
What follows is an excerpt from my cookbook, New England Soups from the Sea. Though the book includes 80 recipes for chowders, bisques, stews, and medleys, only one, a Portuguese Shrimp Mozambique, features shrimp. That doesn’t mean we need to stop eating shrimp entirely. But I do want the reader to be aware of the […]
You might think that in New England, with its rich and storied relationship to the sea, there would be a deeper connection to local seafood than in most places. Eating with the Ecosystem, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote a place-based approach to sustaining New England’s wild seafood, set out to find out. In […]
Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs) are the seafood version of the increasingly popular Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs in which members of a community pay a one time upfront fee for a weekly share in a local farms’ seasonal output of fruits and vegetables. Similarly, in a CSF, community members pay upfront for a weekly or […]
Before you write an angry comment for my title being click bait, hear me out. Yes, I admit the title was intended to grab your attention. No, I don’t think you’ll prevent Tommy John surgery by ONLY consuming bone broth. That is of course, ridiculous. But I do think it’s part of a solution that […]
I couldn’t believe the news on the morning of June 8th. Anthony Bourdain was dead. I had a meeting with a friend when I saw it all over my Facebook feed so I couldn’t quite fully process it beyond the immediate shock. But afterwards, when I saw the outpouring of love on social media, it […]
I find it a little ironic that I’m finally writing about my experience as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) at a time when I’m transitioning away from being an NTP. But I’ve always wanted to write this post so you know what they say..better late than never. That said I’m still using my training as […]
One of the great joys of traveling is experiencing a cuisine and a food culture completely different from your own. This is one of the many reasons I love to travel. Although I’ve only been in Cambodia for a short time I’ve immersed myself in the Cambodian food culture as much as possible. I visit […]
Yes, I’m really going to eat a tarantula (and a few insects). Now DON’T scan down to the video yet. Let me first tell you why I ate a tarantula and why this is a fairy common thing here in Cambodia. Eating tarantulas (and other spiders) is actually not a traditional practice in Cambodia. It became widespread […]