American food, much like most of the people in it, originates from other lands. Unless you are a descendant of Native Americans, at some point in the past, an ancestor arrived here in one way or another.  Many arrived with just the clothes on their backs, and some arrived with even less than that against their will.   The […]

If you have been reading this series of articles for any length of time, you know that I alway bring up reading the ingredient list on any packaged food.  There is good reason for that.  Labels lie.  They mislead.  They gaslight.  They misdirect like a street magician performing a card trick.   The label on the […]

Summer is here.  I can tell because I have 2 metric tons of dust in my lungs from mowing the other day.  My electric meter is spinning like a skydiver’s altimeter when the parachute doesn’t open.  And yellowjackets are buzzing around all angry…wait…they are never not angry.  No matter, I know summer when I see […]

There are many fears in life.  Some are rational, some not so much.  Politicians seem to deal only in fear nowadays, because it’s such an easy emotion to tap into and manipulate.  I bet I could fill a book with fears I wasted time on that never happened, or ones I worried about so much that I seemed […]

The main tenet of my eating philosophy that I’ve practiced for the last eight years is to avoid as much pre-processed foods as possible.  That has to be taken with a common sense approach.   Unless you are only eating fruits and vegetables you grow yourself, and livestock or wild game that you raise, almost all foods that […]