Goodbye Friday
At eleven weeks pregnant, I had a miscarriage. I began bleeding on Good Friday and on Easter Monday I lost our baby. This was fitting, as our son Jacob had named the baby Jesus. Though I’d felt the sense of an ending over the previous four days, the actual event — I was standing in the cold rain, buying an ivory ostrich egg — was pitilessly clear in its finality and meaning. Our little baby could not stay with us in this life.
A Nice Review of the Real Food Cookbook
I loved this review of my cookbook from the San Francisco Book Review.
Publishers Weekly Book Review: “The Real Food Cookbook: Traditional Dishes for Modern Cooks”
“Planck promotes her “good and simple” philosophy of eating (Real Food: What to Eat and Why) in a collection of 150 straightforward, trend-bucking recipes.”
My Changing Palate
Your palate, like that of your children, may be changing. Don’t consider it a fixed entity. Find The Real Food Cookbook at Murray’s on Bleecker Street and all over the country, in fine bookstores, and on-line. Eat well.
Bee Pollen and Bit Man Invent Cooking
Scene: Qesem Cave, Central Israel
Middle Pleistocene, 400,000-200,000 years ago
Bee Pollen and Bit Man sit around the fire
Milk Methods: Raw, Cooked or Zapped
Modern pasteurization takes three main forms: batch or low-temperature, High Temperature Short Time (HTST), and ultra-high temperature (UHT).
Fat Skeptics
Remember the general rule: If your great-grandmother ate it, it's probably okay.
Your Right to Real Food
I believe that traditional foods are good for you, that farmers ought to have the right to sell them conveniently and hygienically, and that you ought have the right to buy and eat them.
Radical Domestic Imperfection - by Shannon Hayes
Shannon describes her life as one of Radical Domestic Imperfection. Her light touch made my day, so I'm sharing it with you.
Farmers’ Markets and Beyond
Here's my message: the market for slow and local food needs choice, diversity, and integrity.
Land of Milk and Honey
'Land of milk and honey' means a lucky land, a land of plenty, and you can see why.
Truth in Labeling
Experience is a fine teacher. But you also need to know wider facts about the world - facts beyond the grasp of your own eyes, your own hands.
Raw Deal on Camembert - by Rob Kaufelt
Today's lament against this sly attack on traditional foods comes from cheesemonger Rob Kaufelt.
Leaves, Yes; Eat Meat, Too
Pollan also recommends, 'Eat mostly plants.' 'Mostly' is a tricky word here.
Steak not Statins
On the demise of a new superdrug that was meant to raise HDL, the New York Times was blunt: Wall Street and Big Pharma stocks may have winced, but 'An effective HDL booster already exists. It is niacin, the ordinary B vitamin.'
Real Food for Nursing Mothers
I believe the advice many well-informed, health-conscious women have absorbed is out of date and risky.
Sleeping With Baby
Fortunately, several studies have addressed the risks and benefit of bedsharing and other arrangements in which mothers (or other caregivers) sleep with babies.
Elective Cesareans: Thumbs Down
JULIAN CHARLES PLANCK was born on October 24. He is healthy and handsome (to me) and I'm feeling well, too. It was a long labor with several surprises - he was born by Cesarean section - which I'll tell you about soon.
All About My Mother
David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula, was gallant enough to say this about my mother on September 21, 2006.