Cooking & Home

Last month I wrote about the benefits of oils and fats and the three different building blocks of oils, which determine whether an oil can be considered saturated and very stable (can be used for frying at high temperatures), mono-unsaturated or fairly stable (can be used for cooking, baking and...

Fats and oils have been the subject of misunderstandings, misleading recommendations and hype for some time. The cholesterol scare has us thinking that animal fats are bad for us, that saturated fats are bad for us, that fat in general is bad for us. These claims are untrue. Many weight-conscious...

For starters, let me give you a quick summary of the first part of this article published in January’s paper, which was subtitled Simple Carbohydrates. The summery is followed by the second part of this article, called Complex Carbohydrates. A simple carbohydrate or sugar consists of one or two sugar...

Since this is a bigger topic, I am going to divide it into two parts. Today we will cover the SIMPLE carbohydrates or sugars. Next time I will cover the COMPLEX carbohydrates found in whole foods. Carbohydrates have generated much confusion in the world of nutrition. The recent “low-carb” or...

Nowadays people eat under all kinds of strange circumstances – while walking down the street, while driving their vehicles, while sitting at their desks working, while reading the newspaper, while watching a movie. Eating is no longer something that deserves a dedicated setting or time frame. It does not call...

All life on our planet Earth originated in the waters of the primordial oceans, and water continues to play an essential role in our lives today. We can go for a month without food, but we can live for only two or three days without water. Water carries nutrients and...

“Whole foods” is a contemporary term that was unnecessary in the days of our great-grandmothers. Back then, before the advent of industrial food processing, all food was naturally whole. Today we need to differentiate between whole and processed foods as a matter of survival. Whole foods are grains, legumes, vegetables,...

With the arrival of fall we say goodbye to the warmth of summer and move into the cooler months of the year. Transitions like this can be stressful on the body and it is a good idea to lighten its load by letting go of stored toxins and compromising eating...

A Cookbook for the 21st Century “COOKING WITH MARIKA: Clean Cuisine from an Estonian Farm” By Marika Blossfeldt. Available at Marikab.com/product/cooking-with-marika  and Amazon. Marika Blossfeldt offers a sensible approach to cooking that satisfies the taste buds, energizes the body and balances the mind. She has been serving delicious and vibrant meals...

Health coach, cookbook author, and retreat facilitator Marika Blossfeldt spends winters in Beacon, upstate New York, and summers at her farm Polli Talu in Rame küla, Estonia. Her most recent book, “COOKING WITH MARIKA: Clean Cuisine from an Estonian Farm” was published in May 2020. It has won the 2020...