Some folks may remember the reports last year of a butter shortage in Norway when the low-carb, high-fat revolution took hold. Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt reported on his blog, earlier this year, that Audi had placed ads that tempted buyers for the new Audi R8 by giving away a pound of butter for free with the purchase of the [...]

An old-but-new scheme has landed upon the shores of the American Diet Wasteland: the feeding-tube-up-your-nose, drop-weight-quick weight loss plan for women who want to fool themselves for the one very expensive day of their life. A reader, Bill, writes me to say: Here’s the latest for those neurotic brides-to-be out there: the K-E Diet. As unbelievable as [...]

In celebration of all the good food I have been enjoying lately, here is a post dedicated to the great food from my local pork farm, Melo Farms in Yale, Michigan. Melody and Lynn are not only my favorite pork and chicken farmers, but they are also my friends. Melody made me a wonderful batch of [...]

Writes Skip Oliva: “The next great ideological war won’t be between libertarians and statists, but the Paleos and Juicers.” Here is the true confession of a carnivore turned juicer.

NPR recently ran a great story, “Who Killed Lard?” From the story: “It seems funny,” Silver says, “but for thousands of years this was the thing that people cooked with. A century ago, lard was in every American pantry and fryer. These days, lard is an insult. “The word lard has become this generally derogatory [...]

A good friend of mine sent me this email: Karen, I was watching Bloomberg news this morning before work, and one of the bimboettes was doing a story on people living longer during this recession. Her comment was that because people could not afford to go out and buy a steak dinner, there were fewer [...]

You can’t make this stuff up. Be very prepared…. From an article in USA Today: I was thinking about the Super Bowl. What goes with the Super Bowl but chicken wings? And I said, ‘Oh, a chicken wing cupcake, Rachel?’ And I tried five or six recipes and the last recipe when I was ready to [...]

Taco Bell wants its “fair share” of causing autoimmune disorders, cancer, cardiovascular disease, gluten attacks, diabetes, and other fun stuff. Looking at this thing makes me queasy. That stuff on the bottom is supposed to be sausage. The stuff on top is supposed to be eggs. People actually eat this stuff, and they claim to [...]

Mark Sisson has featured a gentleman on his website, George Steffner, who has a wonderful story (and photos). George writes, “I had recently heard an interview about folks who followed a particular eating lifestyle. It wasn’t a diet.” The show George is talking about is Lew Rockwell’s podcast with me, “Government Hates Good Health.” During [...]

Primitive man walks into office cubicle area and sees a line of fully developed humans sticking cardboard boxes covered with plastic into microwave ovens, where the result is a foul, burning, chemical-y smell, followed by the humans removing what appears to be shriveled testicles (those are actually processed salisbury steaks in a “Lean Cuisine” meal) [...]