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, April 22, 2010

5 min breakfast



3 eggs scrambled in a little butter. One box of Trader Joe's microgreens. One hunk of tomato. Drizzle of leftover parsely/garlic/olive oil/balsamic dressing from a previous dinner. I've spent a lot more time on meals that were much less lovely!
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  1. CassieApril 22, 2010 at 12:43 PM

    Delicious! Every Sunday I make an egg dish - 1 doz. eggs, some kind of meat/bacon/sausage, frozen veggies, green onions, cherry tomatoes, whatever sounds good. Bake it up, divvy it up in containers and I'm ready for the week.

    Thanks for your blog Jen, keeps me thinking about food in new ways.

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  2. Stephen J. HaesslerApril 29, 2010 at 11:36 AM

    Midori made this this morning and I ended up licking the plate. Total yum-ness!

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