Its getting to be that time of year again.  The time when family comes together, smiles are exchanged, and food is shared (my favorite part).  I have to admit, though, that Thanksgiving food is in my list of Top 10 meals of the year, and its the day I’m most likely to have non-raw food.  [...]

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1. Coal still accounts for 52% of all American electricity consumption. Americans still burn 1 Billion tons of coal per year. The average American household uses 9.5 tons of coal per year for energy. About half of all the trains on American railways at any given time are carrying coal. Most Americans don’t know that [...]

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It occurred to me this weekend that even though I’ve been making Indian dishes for the last few recipes, I haven’t made the one thing that Indian food is known for: curry.  Actually, I haven’t made a curry since my very first post (curried vegetable wrap), so I figured this week should definitely be a [...]

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While staying at an ashram near Bangalore in India, I was introduced for the second time to the Ayurvedic practice of kavala graha, commonly known in English as oil pulling.  Ro had first told me about kavala graha when he came back from a 6 month study abroad trip in India 3 years ago.  Practicing [...]

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Barfi (Indian sweet meats)
This weekend I went out to an Indian restaurant with my friends, and after eating dinner, a few them decided they were still up for a dessert.  The restaurant had a big array of Indian sweet meats, and so I stood and explained to everyone what each one was.  After everyone had [...]

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Well, my attempt this week to make an Indian style dish ended up in a funk of different flavors that didn’t exactly please the palette.  So after having a somewhat unpleasant lunch and getting inspired by an episode of Iron Chef, I decided to take a new direction and make some thing [...]

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