In nature health is the default, he pointed out. Most of the time pests and disease are just nature’s way of telling the farmer he’s doing something wrong.
IT WAS AT THIS POINT that the idea of shaking the snow globe, as one neuroscientist described the psychedelic experience, came to seem more attractive to me than frightening, though it was still that...
IN THE MID-1950S, Bill Wilson, the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, learned about Osmond and Hoffer’s work with alcoholics. The idea that a drug could occasion a life-changing spiritual experience w...
Here, then, is one way in which we would do well to go a little native: backward, or perhaps it is forward, to a time and place where the gathering and preparing and enjoying of food were closer to th...
Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time we’re confronted with a new task or situation. Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay aw...
Guidelines for Voyagers and Guides.* The guidelines represent a
Four of the top ten causes of death today are chronic diseases with well-established links to diet: coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancer.
For me, cooking is about seeking the deepest, farthest, richest flavors in everything I make. About extracting the absolute most out of every ingredient, whether it is a beautiful piece of salmon or a...
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love? So
EAT MOSTLY PLANTS, ESPECIALLY LEAVES.
Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.
Do mesmo modo, muito do que sabemos sobre os benefícios para a saúde de uma dieta vegetariana se baseia em estudos dos adventistas do sétimo dia, que distorcem o quadro nutricional abstendo-se de álco...
Cream—the richest, sweetest part of milk—is of course our first flavor, the taste, in a spoon, of life’s first freshness and innocence, long before we ever encounter the taste of cooked food. And what...
Could it be that the doctors were mistaking transcendence for insanity?
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always...
Cooking—of whatever kind, everyday or extreme—situates us in the world in a very special place, facing the natural world on one side and the social world on the other. The cook stands squarely between...
Cooking, I found, gives us the opportunity, so rare in modern life, to work directly in our own support, and in the support of the people we feed. If this is not making a living, I don’t know what is....
By 1900, European scientists recognized that unless a way was found to augment this naturally occurring nitrogen, the growth of the human population would soon grind to a very painful halt... After Ni...
As we drove up, Mr. Flowers himself was sitting beneath a tree out front, having a smoke. He was a wiry old white guy with the most unusual facial hair I had ever laid eyes on. If in fact it was facia...
Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to.