In the early 1960s, a newly minted cardiologist named Robert Coleman Atkins was feeling poorly. He was depressed. He had packed on 90 pounds over the long, stressful years of college and med school. He tried cutting calories, but he just got tired and hungry, and his waistband wasn't getting any any looser. Once upon …
Over millennia, we humans have developed exquisitely creative and nourishing foodways. That's how we managed to populate this wide world. We used our smarts to figure out what's good to eat. We used our very best smarts to figure out how to make whatever was available become good to eat. More recently, we've been using our …
Don't try to sharpen your knives by yourself. You'll ruin them! Send them out to be sharpened by a professional. Box them up and send them out! Oh, really?
When you're just getting started with a more natural way of way of eating, the grocery store can suddenly seem like an unfamiliar landscape. What's good to eat? What's not? It's actually really easy to figure that out, once you know what to ignore.
Thankful for keto this evening. Our good friends Sharon and Jean started doing keto three whole months ago, and that inspired us to keep the meal almost totally low-carb and grain-free. Jean is an active woman in her 80s. She's lost 27 pounds so far. “I've never been to stay on a diet before!” she …
Could this be the square peg that solves the round conundrum? I keep seeing round at the market, but usually I just buy chuck or rib eye. Or once in a while brisket. Because I know what to do with those things. So I got a great big hunk of eye round, determined to Figure …
I’ve been tinkering with how to organize the How To Cook With Vesna website recipe pages better. Plenty of sites provide recipes, recipes galore. I want to talk about how to cook. My recipe pages are meant to be a springboard for discussion, a window into what food and cooking is about, with the recipe …
OK, so I like to point people to my lower-carb, homemade version of macaroni and cheese using low-carb elbows, if possible, and real cheese. But sometimes I have been known to open a box. So I was preparing Kirkland Signature Macaroni & Cheese (powdered packet, not sauce packet) (that’s the Costco store brand — we’ve …
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Why cook? Why learn how to cook? Great questions. Think about this: if you don’t cook for yourself, that means someone else is cooking for you. And chances are, it’s not a personal chef. Chances are, in fact, it’s not anybody who knows your name. Or would care if they did. Who is cooking for you? For …
