The image of a 7 year-old wearing a bra is disturbing to me. Not only is childhood being cut short in the West driven by many factors including media of all sorts, an obsession with the body, with sexualizing everything, the glamorization of violence, etc, etc – you know the deal. Now childhood is being cut short even earlier by means of biology.
Posts Tagged ‘organic’
Big girls, beefy hormones
Posted in agriculture, Diets, Farming, Food, In the News, meat, random, tagged agriculture, beef, big girls, childhood obesity, cooking, cuisine, endocrinology, female puberty, food, hormones, hormones in meat, life, meat, milk, nutrition, obesity, organic, organic food, puberty, random on August 15, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Engaged Dharma
Posted in Food Review, random, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged activism, agriculture, buddhism, dhamma, dharma, ecology, Engaged Dharma, food, organic, Organic Farming on August 8, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Last night I returned from a weekend retreat. This was a meditation retreat like no other. Half silent Vipassana meditation, half activities and discussions about activism in the world and approaching it from a Dharma perspective. In other words, Engaged Dharma.
Isn’t it organic?
Posted in Diets, random, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged beauty212, diets, food, foodincavenue.blogspot.com, GM Food, life, Mary Schook, nutrition, organic, organic nutrition, pesticides, random, tomatoes, vegan, Vegetables, vegetarian, video, weight loss on July 26, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Can eating organic make you thin? Apparently, yes. Enjoy this incredible video by Mary Schook.
My Week in Food
Posted in Desserts, Food Review, photography, random, Salads, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged anise, balsamic, chop sticks, family dinner, food, food photos, Israel, jam, jelly, mac & cheese, organic, organic veg, photographs, photography, stew, strawberries, sushi, Tel Aviv, tomato jam, tomatoes, Vegetables, veggies on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Conjoined Quadruplet Strawberry – a surprise indeed! Found in a box I picked up for 5 shekels on the street corner. Made for an interesting dessert.
Peppers – Stuffed
Posted in photography, Recipes, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged bell peppers, cooking, food, life, organic, photography, photos, quinoa, random, Recipe, red lentils, red peppers, stuffed peppers on February 18, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The monster peppers I received today were sweet, not spicy. I went ahead and stuffed them all. Because of an embarrassing situation that has ensued (we’re out of gas — can you believe it — and we can’t figure out which gas company is ours — stupid, stupid), I had to make something 100% in [...]
Organic Nightmare 2: Revenge of the Peppers
Posted in photography, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged beautiful food, chili, chilis, cooking, food, life, monster chili, monster peppers, organic, Organic Vegetables, peppers, photography, random, red peppers, Vegetables, vegetarian on February 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
These huge red peppers showed up on my doorstep.
Organic Nightmare
Posted in photography, Recipes, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged aloo gobi, Apple butter, banana bread, cooking, Cooking large quantities, food, Fruit, Israel, life, organic, organic food, pasta sauce, Pesto, photography, random, Recipes, Vegetables on February 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
What happens when you can’t get through the “small” veg box? What if it happens week after week?
Wasteful nastiness, that’s what. And fruit flies. Lots and lots of bloody fruit flies. So, you know the expression – when life hands you lemons…
How important is it (really) to buy local?
Posted in Food Review, meat, random, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged agriculture, and Takeaways, BBC, Blood, Britain, Chicken, Chicken Processing Plant, cooking, Documentary, Fair Trade, Film, food, Food Factories, Food production, Fruits, Global Economy, Grocery stores, life, Local Produce, Market, Marketing, organic, random, Reality TV, Rice paddies, Shrimp, Shrimp factory, Southeast Asia, supermarkets, Sweat, USA, Vegetables on January 17, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Before the experience, he had been a staunch “Buy British” supporter. Being a farmer, this makes perfect sense. No complaints here. But upon his return, he had changed his mind and was educating his friends on the matter. Why? The food industry in Asia supports millions of people. Maybe more. There would be no big Western food companies, whether they be MacDonald’s or Lean Cuisine, without ultra cheap foodstuffs. Even fancy restaurants are affected. Not every eatery can afford locally caught fresh fish and shellfish. I know from experience at having to defrost and clean hundreds of prawns and scallops and mussels every day at a very high-end restaurant in Tel Aviv – one that specialized in seafood.
Delight at my Doorstep
Posted in Vegetables & Fruit, tagged CSA, Delight, food, Fruit, Happiness, Israel Tel Aviv, life, organic, Organic Vegetables, random, Veg Box, Vegetables on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a long day on Thursday, this is what I found on my doorstop! I totally forgot that this was going to be the first week of my organic fruit and veg box. And it was one of the happiest spontaneous moments of recent memory. There was so much in it! Tomatoes and cucumbers and [...]
Red Herring – An Organic Disaster
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coconut milk, cooking, cuisine, food, groceries, grocery budget, grocery store, Japanese food, life, organic, organic food, pickled fish, pickled herring, random, red herring, Thai food, Whole Foods, Wordpress.com on December 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m munching away on some sort of pickled/oiled Dutch red-colored fish with onion slices. In Hebrew the fish is called מטיאס but I have no idea what it is in English. Some sort of red herring? Who knows. The online translator couldn’t tell me. Why am I doing this? I’m starving. And it was [...]
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