Does red meat cause cancer? How about heart disease? Or could we solve global warming if we just stopped eating beef?
Every day the headlines declare another reason not to eat meat. But I’m thinking of three million reasons why red meat has been very, very good to the human race. That would be about the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'food fads'
It’s Not the Burger, It’s the Bun: A Defense of Meat
April 22nd, 2009 · 9 Comments · Blog
Tags: carbohydrates·fats·food fads·food news·Food Politics·meat·nutrition·pickles
Chowder: The Great Identity Theft
April 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
We here at The Slow Cook have pledged to stamp out creeping food fad-ism wherever it raises its ugly head. So today we are mounting a defense of traditional chowder, which has been so badly maligned in a “Kitchen Window” column dated April 11 on the National Public Radio website.
“Chowder? In the spring?” the [...]


We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.

