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.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Best Breakfast includes saurkraut



This morning I had the very good fortune to have some leftover roast pork. I warmed it up with butter which took no time at all. Then, I utilized the best "instant" food ever invented-saurkraut. Northern Europe may not have contributed much to my general vegetable traditions, but they make up for their lack of Mediterranean/Asian vegetables skills with saurkraut. It gets spooned out of a jar onto my plate. I like Bubbies brand if I've been too lazy to make my own. 1/2c has only 1g of carbohydrate!!! Brilliant. All of you out there looking to lean out are supposed to be keeping a tight eye on your carbs. 1/2c also has 30% of your RDA for Vit C. I have at least 1c on my plate, so I've only got 2g carbs, 60% Vit C, 18%iron and a dose of probiotics. And of course it tastes salty and sour and gourmet with leftover pork roast. Should be a good day.
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