HT – Marion Nestle – https://www.foodpolitics.com/2026/03/weekend-reading-the-hidden-cost-of-cheap-food/ Download the full report – https://yuka.io/en/report-food-price-composition-us/ Yikes.
Over the years when I invited friends over for dinner they got pretty excited. One day I asked a guest what’s with all the excitement? Chinese food! They were expecting something I really sucked at making. To this day I don’t make much Chinese/Asian stuff. I’d rather go out and eat something someone actually knows […]
When I finished reading The Writing Life by Annie Dillard I realized my writing will never achieve the level of the great ones. But I am OK with this just as I was OK with deciding not to pursue writing for a living. Too hard, too demanding, too much time spent writing words into the […]
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Participants with the highest intake averaged 9.3 servings of ultra-processed foods per day, while those with the lowest intake averaged 1.1 servings. Compared with the lowest group, those in the highest group had a 67% greater risk of dying from coronary heart disease or stroke, or experiencing non-fatal heart attacks, strokes or resuscitated cardiac arrest. […]
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Really?
YES. A heavy glass vase fell off its perch in the wee hours and scared the crap out of me.
I’ll bet! What a mess. Earthquake?
Since you asked I checked. The last quake mag. 2.0 – 13 mi east of Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma, USA, on Wednesday, Feb 8, 2023 at 6:48 pm. So last night could have been a tiny aftershock.
I was in one in Alaska and they are scary. I really feel for the people in turkey and Syria.