The Low Down

The human body is a metabolic marvel comprised of dozens of little systems connecting to create one complex system. Food is the fuel, the input, for the systems. Our metabolic machinery evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to function optimally on select fuels. These fuels were the original, Primal foods of the human organism. Over these hundreds of thousands of years our Big Game Hunting, small prey capturing, scavenging, foraging, gathering, opportunistic ancestors accumulated experience and wisdom about nourishing themselves. The learned to preserve and predigest foods to maximize the quality of their metabolic fuel. Eventually they learned to cook foods without destroying the important nourishing properties of the food, and then they learned to heal the human body with food. Only recently in the human evolutionary experience, have we abandoned all these hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated epicurean genius. Now we fuel our marvelous, complex metabolic machinery with crap invented to create profits for agribusiness. We have become dumb eaters. As we regain our eating intelligence it doesn't make sense to move back to the savannah and put out our fires or climb into our cave and pretend there is a glacier next door. It makes sense to fuel our bodies with all the primal human foodstuffs, prepared and preserved with accumulated ancestral wisdom and served up for the undeniable desires of the human taste buds. Primal, paleolithic food choices, handled according to ancient food ways resulting in outrageously good food.
PRIMAL. SMART. DELECTABLE.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

The Best Use for Candy and Sugar


It is the holiday season. I've got kids. All that candy and crap is appealing. Gingerbread houses are cool...but potentially edible which has always driven me crazy. Candy is totally suited to construction projects in a way that it is not suited to consumption. This year we made a sugar cube castle stuck together with GLUE rendering it completely inedible. It was an architectural experience for my 11 year old especially since the instructions called for sugar tablets and I bought sugar cubes. Who knew there was a difference? Apparently sugar tablets are rectangles. You can see the problem. Anyway, building this sparkling winter wonderland castle enabled us to pick out bags of candy and there was a little taste testing during construction, but then it was all over. Now, I can look at this thing composed of all things detrimental and enjoy it because I won't have to think about anyone eating it too!
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