With his feet wrapped in bandages the man hobbled up to the table where I was standing.
I first noticed the hobbling gait, then the feet crammed into flip-flops. His heels were hanging off the edge. A volunteer at the table I was visiting knew him.
“Hey, Charles. How’s life?”
“You know, I can’t complain,” he said. “I’m alive.”
Fans of local singer/songwriter, Michael Clarity, may notice there’s less of him lately…..65 pounds less, to be exact. Michael is the subject of an interview I recently conducted regarding weight loss through lifestyle change. He changed his entire approach to nutrient intake, portion sizes and physical activity. According to Clarity, it's been work but totally worth it because the pain of staying was greater than the pain of change.
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Let’s say the people in charge of your food were honestly tasked with making it better your you, the consumer and tax payer. And let’s say the this governing body was directed by appointed leadership placed there by elected officials whose real purpose is to protect industry. Well then you would have the current FDA.
If you have ever suspected that government puts the interests of industry before the benefits of consumers read below. The new Nutrition Facts label was to be mandatory on packaging last year. LAST YEAR. But the FDA, under leadership appointed by our current administration, has provided delay after delay.
Hemoglobin, a protein that links up with sugars such as glucose, is found inside red blood cells. Its job is to carry oxygen from the lungs to all the cells of the body. Glucose enters your red blood cells and links up (or glycates) with molecules of hemoglobin.
I had a great time making Thai Peanut Slaw on WFLA’s “Daytime” morning show program. The recipe and discussion were to promote National Stroke Awareness Month which is every May. Here’s the segment:
https://www.wfla.com/daytime/heart-healthy-peanut-slaw/
I explained that pate is the easiest, most decadent thing to make – kinda like a cheesecake – and I ran down the procedure for him in 15 seconds. Next thing I knew I was texting him a shopping list and I was on deck to make the curried pate for dinner. Pate twice in one day and a new friend who will eat it. What luck!
As a registered dietitian nutritionist and amateur salesperson it's taken several years to figure out what works and what doesn't as a Taste Cart volunteer and St. Petersburg Saturday Morning Market vendor. Below is a pictorial on the joys of cooking for a crowd and talking nutrition.
I was at the Enoch Davis Center learning about youth farming, volunteer time banking, sustainable agriculture and a lot of other interesting things people in my City are fired up about but if was Charles’ story that made the most impact.
Next time you are in Old Navy, Office Depot, Dick’s Sporting Goods or Home Depot ask yourself, “Why am I being encouraged to eat at a store that has nothing to do with food?”
While an onion begins many meals in almost every cuisine, the onion, and the entire Allium family, (which includes leeks, shallots, garlic and chives) contains a redolent juice than lingers longer on the fingers (and cutting board) than it does on the tongue.
Aaaahhh…. May 5, 2017 was going to be a great day.
It was that day that restaurants with over 20 locations nationwide were required to put calorie counts on their point of purchase menus.
Want to work faster in your kitchen? Leave your cutting board out on the counter.
The year was 1997 and I had just moved into my sweet little Beach Drive apartment in downtown St. Petersburg. The previous tenant left behind this big butcher block that measured about 1-foot by 2 feet. It was lovely. It was useful. It was damn heavy.
The true beauty of homemade salad dressings is that they are so full of flavor that you tend to use less of them. And, ultimately, using less of any food means fewer calories. That’s good if you are trying to consume less overall to maintain or lose weight. I am often looking for ways to decrease my input so dressing my salads with these makes sense.
Here are the 11 tips I teach during an hour-long presentation about working faster in your kitchen. These are just the tips and I will flesh out each of these in the future.
Hooray! In 2018 we are finally getting what we wanted: amounts of added sugars will be featured on the new food label.
I don’t know where I got this crazy idea that soup was a time-intensive job but the ditching of that belief has opened up many new week night dinners for me.
When the photo of Julia Child's iconic kitchen popped up in my Facebook newsfeed I saw something that made me grin from ear to ear. While the Internet was buzzing about Julia's pegboard where all her gadgets hung in neat rows my eyes went to one special area of her kitchen: the sink.
Surprise. Surprise. Cooks don’t cook in public schools anymore. I mean I “knew” this going into an extensive tour of schools but I wasn’t prepared for how little the staff cooks in a school kitchen.
