Archive for December, 2009

2009: Best of Eating Real Food

Published on: December 31, 2009 at 12 pm

Since launching in late July, Eating Real Food has published about 50 articles (not including this one). If you’re a recent addition to our readership, you may want to check out our favorite articles of the year.

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Book review: Food Rules (Michael Pollan)

Published on: December 30, 2009 at 10 pm

Fans of Pollan will not learn anything new, but it does serve as a nice refresher of his food philosophy.

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2009: Year in Review

Published on: December 30, 2009 at 7 am

A brief recap of my life in 2009, an outlook for 2010, and a call for contributors

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Why is some cheddar cheese orange?

Published on: December 29, 2009 at 10 am

At this very moment, a child somewhere is eating cheddar cheese. It may be in her lunch box, on a sandwich, or accompanying a Triscuit. If you can picture this scene in your head, odds are that the cheddar cheese itself is orange.

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Recipe: Turkey BLT sandwich

Published on: December 28, 2009 at 11 am

Yum. Saturday’s lunch was one my favorite meals in a while. And its construction was mostly unintentional.

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Review: Amy’s Spinach Pizza (frozen)

Published on: December 27, 2009 at 12 pm

Over the holiday weekend I popped one of Amy’s frozen pizzas into my pre-heated oven. 10 to 12 minutes later, I was enjoying a truly excellent meal.

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Previewing Michael Pollan’s Food Rules

Published on: December 18, 2009 at 8 am

Notable columnist and author Michael Pollan has a new book coming out on December 29th. That’s next Tuesday. It’s called Food Rules, and quite literally it is a set of rules to help people re-learn eating.

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HFCS linked to child diabetes and obesity

Published on: December 14, 2009 at 6 pm

A cheap sweetener used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis.

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