Food Talk

I was perusing a sports bar menu recently. A burger perhaps? There were plenty of burger choices. Every single one of them included bacon. Can’t I just have a plain simple burger? Is bacon now a mandatory condiment, like ketchup? I know bacon is wildly …

Fat is my friend. Food fat that is. Fat adds flavor and texture and satisfaction to your food. Fat in your meals can increase satiety and moderate appetite. Despite these positive attributes, public health “experts” spent the past few decades spreading fat phobia, because certain …

Or: Yes I eat burgers At a recent luncheon meeting, the menu choices were: Guess which one I had. The burger. The woman next to me, who also had a burger, remarked that she was surprised that I — a dietitian — was eating a …

Several years ago I binged on apples. Briefly. I was visiting family in a well-known apple-growing region, in late September. The many local apple varieties were in their prime, particularly Cortlands. There was a large bag of Cortland apples in the refrigerator, so I helped …

I wrote about Too Much Cheese a few weeks ago. Now I’ve got too much kale. This time the source is my garden. I planted a lot of kale seeds and they struggled along for months. Something was chewing little holes in the leaves, but …

There’s a whole lot of cheese in my house at the moment. On one grocery trip, I bought 4 different varieties: Jack, Cheddar, Mozzarella and Colby. I had plans for all of them. Meanwhile a household member visited a cheese maker’s shop in a certain …