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, May 13, 2010




Mmmmm. A new Paleo delight. Crandall found it. A Pan de Higo Almendrado, from Spain. Translated as Fig Almond Cake. My kids said it was in no way a "cake", but that does not diminish it's deliciousness. It is basically mashed up figs pressed with whole almonds. The ingredients are: Pajarero Figs and Marcona Almonds. That is a good ingredient list.
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3 comments:

  1. ChristyMay 13, 2010 at 10:23 AM

    and how do these two ingredients come together for cake? I want to make some!

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  2. Jennifer HigginsMay 13, 2010 at 10:06 PM

    Well, like my kid said, "This isn't cake". It really was like dried figs, maybe processed in a foodprocessor until they were a paste, and then mixed with some whole almonds pressed into a flat circle. It was kind of "raw" in the sense that it seemed like it was made for just ripping apart and savoring.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 28, 2010 at 1:52 PM

    Was it more like bread? "Pan" means bread in Spanish...Marcona almonds are my favorite and if you get a chance to get them (Trader Joe's and Whole Foods have it), you should definitely indulge. :-)

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