How to brew kombucha – fermentation at it's easiest. Here is some information on kombucha, which we hope will help you on your way to get started in the wonderful world of fermentation. Kombucha is a lightly sparkling drink made from a solution of sweetened tea, the solution is fermented at room temperature with the […]
Bring it on! As months go, January is often seen as the worst. Like Mondays, it is usually dreaded and feared. Visions of anemic salads and dreary, damp days tied in with the post-party comedown. The harshness of reality, resolutions that were 100% reasonable on the 31st, now seem unrealistic and gloomy… the guilt sets […]
Sugar – it’s a sticky mess. We’re told we should lay off the golden syrup, but that maple syrup’s fine, that we should steer clear of chocolate, except the dark stuff, or the ones sweetened with xylitol, and that our kids will explode if they eat too many jellies, but they can mainline dates and […]
You Are What You Aat … Or Are You? No. You are what you absorb and assimilate! Great health depends on strong digestion and strong digestion depends on good gut flora. Traditional societies knew this. From sauerkraut to kefir and umeboshi to kimchi, peoples around the world have cultured common foodstuffs for millennia. They did […]
The French word ‘protéine’, coined in 1838, comes from the Greek word ‘proteios’, meaning ‘the first quality’. Proteins are essential to life, just not in the hu-moo-ngous quantities once believed (*check the end of this post for a list of the good, bad and ugly of protein sources). What are proteins? Proteins furnish the body […]
