In a fit of poorly guided frugality, I bought some ground turkey recently. I have to mention that turkey is not my favorite food for one serious reason – if I eat roasted turkey two days in a row I become violently ill, an eruptive experience that is accompanied...

Some foods, like homemade bread, are more than just “cooking” and can be more like therapy. Pasta is like this. I was raised in a family where pasta was considered junk food, needless carbohydrates (obviously, we are not Italian or Asian!). In Colombia, the starch of choice is rice and various...

[This was cross posted at my raw food blog Raw+Simple] I had an opportunity to dive into the book, written by by Mark Reinfeld, Bo Rinaldi, and Jennifer Murray, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw. I had not previously read one of these Idiot’s Guides but I found that they use...

Thanks again to you all for entering the Samsung BestBuys contest run on this blog and also other bloggers in the BlogHer network. 896 people commented before the end of the contest. As per contest rules, I used the random number generator to select a number that indicated the comment that...

[This contest is now CLOSED. Please click here to see who the winner was.] Well, today the time has come, the final day of the Samsung BestBuy contest! You can enter to win a $200 gift certificate from BestBuy up until 5pm PST or 8 pm EST this evening. You...

I have entered this post into the annual Bon Appetit Holiday Dessert Bake-Off and I would be deeply thankful if you would follow THIS LINK and vote for my entry! I have been fretting over this post for DAYS. I have been conceptualizing, racking my culinary brains, wondering if this entry...

Does the idea of mixing pomegranate juice with iced coffee make your eyes bug out like the cute little lamby slippers above? POM has done this craaazy thing with their POM iced coffees. .. (click for more)...

When I went to see Sandor Ellix Katz speak about Wild Fermentation (Sandor Ellix Katz and the Wild among us) I heard him mention that he was getting into wild fermented meats. This reminded me of my childhood when we would make Colombian fermented sausages called salchichas or chorizos. I...

(This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Samsung Home Appliances) [This contest is now CLOSED. Please click here to see who the winner was.] At the end of this post I will share with you how you can win a $200 gift certificate from BestBuy! You will see that you’ve got...

If you choose to delve deeply enough, you will find a food-atarian of every sort out there! If you are a foodie, you like know most of the sorts, I dont need to get pedantic about it. Amongst the various types of -tarianisms that I play with, the one that...