Cashews are NOT good. Please read.

I wrote earlier about how much I love cashews, and a reader of this blog kindly pointed out a MAJOR issue with cashews.  You can bet I am switching to peanuts or pork rinds or something. Wow, this world is harsh.  See below!!!

I LOVE CASHEWS and why YOU should too!

Seriously, is there anything better?????  Holy cow.  Cashews provide EVERYTHING YOU NEED to be healthy (well almost everything), and did you know that there is a socially responsible aspect to cashews??    Just look at what Intersnack is doing: http://www.intersnack.com/responsibility/social-responsibility/.  Wow.  I will never eat this little moon shaped golden colored crunchy again without thinking about these people:

Cashew cultivation in West Africa

One-third of all cashew nuts come from Africa. Most African cashew farmers live in poverty due to the primitive agricultural system and processes. As a partner, Intersnack supports the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GIZ (the German foreign aid organisation www.giz.de) in the endeavour to improve the livelihood of 150.000 cashew farmers in the West African countries of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin and in Mozambique. A key objective of the project is to enable the farmers to increase their annual salary by at least $100. Furthermore, the project will create 5.500 jobs in cashew processing.

Eating Rocks?? A REAL dinner challenge to serve REAL food - PICA??

Well, this is a first.  I am just a couple months into my journey to eat REAL, and guess who is coming to dinner? One hint, it's not Sidney Poitier (if you think it's a challenge to me to cook a meal for one of this country's finest actors, you're nuts!). No, it's a cousin of a friend of mine who has PICA -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder).  Bottle gourds and backyard raised chickens won't cut it with this guy.  So here I am, looking up every recipe in a PICA cookbook and they all sounds disgusting.  How do you serve someone REAL food who doesn't eat food??

I will NOT serve crushed rocks or animal feces to anyone at my house. That is NOT hygienic. But what about dirt?  I will probably need to get my soil tested for hazardous substances, but I am thinking something like a "mud-pie". Why not? I mean the one dairy queen serves probably has more chemicals in it than the soil in my backyard.  I know this sounds crazy, but I would rather be thoughtful and respectful for my dinner guest and help him eat something healthy within his rather odd dietary restrictions.   Kosher, gluten-free, or PICA...I think these people all deserve access to REAL eating.

I am NOT condoning PICA, and if you think you suffer from PICA, please get help (maybe here http://www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com/pica).  But if you just can't help yourself, than at least eat safely! Wish me luck this Sat night. Have absolutely no clue what to do for beverages.

A chicken breed to fit your need

Every person has a a designated chicken breed that best fits his or her personality, physicality, and bio-pharmacology.  Do you need a chicken guaranteed to thrive in your climate without overheating or getting frostbite? Or maybe you just want a friendly companion with gorgeous plumage?  Do you need a chicken that helps lower your stress, glycemic index, or riboflavin count? Or maybe one that just tastes great in a quesadilla?  Well, I am in the process of building the chicken coop, and I think it would be best to have at least 8-12 breeds available for a variety of food-life or "life-for-food" applications.  Eggs, meat, pets, and feathers.  I do not think it is right to have only one breed. Then, what…a friend comes over and wants to eat a Sussex, but I am saving my best Sussex from the knife so she can produce eggs for my rocky balboa morning drink.  Anyways, I am going to search for breeds and find  way to get them here.  Is this considered locovore if I import from neighboring states?  I need a bunch of breeds.  I am going to check craigslist first.  I just wish that site didn't support human trafficking.   

WE MUST STAND UP FOR OUR RIGHTS

Julie Bass will live in infamy.  Julie, you are my Rosa Parks.  If you don't know Julie Bass just google her name and vegetable garden and you will learn something about american history my friend.   How could zoning laws not allow me to plant a vegetable garden on my front lawn? I just got a fine for violating zoning laws?  Whose zoning laws? Not mine.  Not the ones I need to be healthy and happy and REAL

Back from vet. LONG day

Yikes, just got back from the vet and they think she might something bad.  Can't write.  

Going to the vet...ugg

I am sorry that I can not write a real entry to my blog today, but my puppyMoomie" is acting really weird and I think he needs to go to the vet, and my vet is a 3 hour drive away.  See you later...

I'm growing bottle gourds!!!!

With a pre-disposition to heart disease (thanks to my family!), I have decided to grow my own bottle gourds in my (under construction) vegetable garden.   I am sure you know about bottle gourds, but just in case you don't...Found in every kitchen of the Indian household, the bottle gourd is believed to have originated in Africa constitutes a major part of food in the Indian cuisine. Like it or not, this gourd has dominated the domestic main course menu for time immemorial. Locally known as “Lauki” (Hindi) or “Sorakkai” (Tamil), this veggie is not that popular in the western world.   Why is not popular in the Western world you ask? Because there is no commercial market for it? Because it tastes hairspray?  No, it is because in our world of commercial grade costco :( vegetable platters with more pesticides on them than a ten year old going on his first boy scout overnight in a mosquito infested river area (and such boy has helicopter parents that bought so much deet-filled "Off" that they could have moved the stock up a few points of the evil parent company of said "Off" (and I sure a parent company exists!). What I mean is that in this world, we have chosen not to grow bottle gourds.  Hence we don't eat bottle gourds. 

Bottle Gourds have an enormous impact on the treatment of high blood pressure and heart disease. The myriad of health benefits of bottle gourd is least known to many, yet unknowingly it is consumed in majority of the Indian families because of the low price tag it carries in the vegetable market and its wide availability.   That is, the INDIAN vegetable market. Not our market which is manipulated and controlled by the upper 1% of the 2% of the wealthiest. (I am not a socialist, but I do believe that we should all have access to helping our bodies with bottle gourds). 

My food journey begins...

I have read too much about organic food.  I have heard too much about veganism. I have experienced more gluten-free.  My name is Morel Jacobs and I am writing this bog because I believe the long term solution and ultimate cure for the human condition is REAL food.  I have been practicing way of living that can only be described as real eating, all the time, every minute, every nano-second.  Where was your food grown?  Was the farmer that picked that strawberry treated fairly?  Was your egg shat by a chicken kept in a koop that utilized an alloy with dangerous compounds?  If you can't answer these questions, you probably haven't been eating real. My name is Morel Jacobs and I welcome you on this journey.