Dumpster bread (a.k.a dead guy food)
So I’ve been baking bread recently. Michael Pollan’s book Cooked has a whole section on baking bread and he goes very in depth into whole wheat flour, why it’s better than white flour, and why what is marketed as whole wheat often isn’t really whole wheat. Listening to it as an audio book made me […]
Yesterday we finally ran out of regular sugar… and a bunch of other thoughts on sugar and food
I thought I’d provide an update and a few reflections on my no-buying-sugar-for-the-year quest. In some ways the changes from it have proven to be more gradual than I expected. In other ways, the changes have proven to be much deeper and far-reaching than I expected. I figured that not buying sugar would quickly equate […]
No Buying Sugar for a Year – Plus Thoughts on Designing Goals
One of my goals for 2018 is to not buy sugar. This isn’t about having a hard-core goal that is some sensational story to blog about: “I went one year without eating any sugar. Here’s what happened!” Nope. There is nothing hard core about it when I’m allowed to eat desert at my friend’s house […]