Author Archives: Becky
Celebrate Earth Day Everyday: Eat Organic
One of the things that surprised me when I started eating organically is that I didn’t see the connection between how I eat and the environment. It seems obvious now, but I wonder how, for all these years of recycling and conserving, I didn’t make the obvious connection. Since today is Earth Day I figured … Continue reading
Mark Bittman says “Go Philly!”
In 1999 Philadelphia had the distinction of being named America’s Fattest City by Men’s Health Magazine. This was not an honor that anyone wanted. I mean, it’s better than when Philly was named the ugliest city but not a plaque you want to hang outside of city hall. That was then and things have changed. … Continue reading
King Corn
“If you take a McDonald’s meal, you don’t realize it when you eat it, but you’re eating corn. Beef has been corn-fed. Soda is corn. Even the French fries. Half the calories in the French fries come from the fat they’re fried in, which is liable to be either corn oil or soy oil. So … Continue reading
Make the Change- Be the Change
I have been a member of www.jillianmichaels.com for about 2.5 years now. Each quarter Jillian has a challenge and each quarter I try my best to take part. The challenge this quarter was called Make the Change- Be the Change. It wasn’t about making New Years Resolutions, we all know those don’t last, it was … Continue reading
Food Films
I love to educate myself. I read all the time. I believe Google is my friend. I actually have a library card. While I enjoy reading, to me, there is no better way to educate myself than through documentaries. This past weekend I watched three interesting documentaries concerning food. The first is what I consider … Continue reading
Introducing FoodLaws
Andrew: What do you need a fake I.D. for? Brian: So I can vote. Remember The Breakfast Club when Anthony Michael Hall’s character claims to have a fake I.D. so that he could vote? That was me. I didn’t have a fake ID but I couldn’t wait to vote. I fell in love with politics … Continue reading
Only the Finest Ingredients
One of my goals for the New Year was to learn how to cook. I mean really learn how to cook. For years I have been subsisting on barely edible meals that, while they nourished me, I could barely get my cats to taste. I know cats are known to be finicky, but my cats … Continue reading
Welcome to My Blog
Creating a personal blog is an incredibly self indulgent exercise. Other than friends and family who wants to read someone’s live journal about all that is going on in their life? Actually, what makes someone thing their friends or family wants to read their blog? A personal blog is like Facebook, only more detailed, or like Twitter, but more insipid. I can only assume that most people don’t give a crap about what I ate this morning or if I moved my bowels. **By the way, I have never posted anything about what I have done in the restroom on any social networking site** It’s no surprise, to me, that the internet is overflowing with blogs, most of them abandoned. There is even one out there from me. I forgot the password and let it lay dormant with all of the other sad, lost, and abandoned blogger sites. It turns out that even the narcissistic act of writing about oneself becomes old when there is no audience to read your poorly grammar checked tome. Continue reading
