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Drink Like a Colonial American Day
Dr. Benjamin Rush’s “Moral and Physical Thermometer,” published 1789 I’ll be updating this post throughout the day, so check back frequently. 8:30am: I have to start my day by “taking my bitters.”...
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Menus: Historic Remedies for Your Expanding Waistline
Weight amongst the high and low classes; from Never Satisfied: A Culutural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat Here’s my menu for tonight’s lecture, Reducing Recipes: Historic Remedies for Your...
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Diets: Going Historically Raw
Now and then, I like to immerse myself in the diet of another time and culture. I’ve been hungry, vegetarian, kosher, vegan, and drunk. Recently, my friend Sharon (of Starting from Scratch) emailed...
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Going Raw: Sunday
Breakfast Grape Fruit or Oranges; Pecans; Protoid Nuts (Pine Nuts); Dates; Whipped Eggs; Milk +Raw Honey Uncooked Foods gives some general guidelines for portion size: one large fruit, 2-3 smaller...
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Going Raw: Monday
Breakfast Apples; Protoid Nuts; Filberts; Turkish pulled figs with cream +Raw Honey I sliced my apple and smeared it with raw honey, then sprinkled the pine nuts over top. The filberts–hazelnuts–I...
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Going Raw: Tuesday
Breakfast Apples; Pecans; Bananas and Cream; Unfired wafers; seeded raisins; milk For breakfast, I had a big heaping bowl of sliced apples, bananas, and chopped pecans. Lunch Apples; Pecans; Celery...
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Going Raw: Wednesday
Breakfast Sliced sweet apples with cream; pecans; protoid nuts; sliced oranges; dates; egg-nog Tasty, filling breakfast! Lunch Pears; pecans; english walnuts; tomato salad with hygeia dressing; fruit...
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Going Raw: Friday
Breakfast Sliced pineapple; Pecans; Protoid nuts; Evaporated Apples; Dates I feel like the menu writers of Uncooked Foods began to run out of steam by the end of the week. I ate dried apples from...
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Going Raw: Saturday and Wrap Up
Breakfast Grapes; Apples or Pears; Nuts; Dates; Milk +Hazelnuts Breakfast was rather uninspired: Milk, a pear, and some hazelnuts. It made me jones for the end of this experiment. Lunch Red Banana...
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Living History: Tea and Two Slices
Tea-and-two-slices. In the late 1920s, George Orwell compiled his first full-length book. Although Down And Out In Paris And London wasn’t an epic novel about a dystopian future, the origins of his...
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