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About Nourishing Food

JULY 8, 2010

“Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food”

- Michael Pollan

If you came to dinner at our house, you would see my children – whose greatest joys include s’mores, cotton candy, and cheese puffs – not just eating, but relishing the following foods:

Salad with homemade apple cider vinegar-and-olive oil dressing

Grass-fed beef, pasture-raised pork, or wild salmon, …with organic pineapple for dessert

Vegetable combos like roasted potatoes and carrots with plenty of butter and at least a spoonful of raw, fermented sauerkraut

If you stayed until morning, you’d see them downing butter oil and fermented – yes, I said fermented – cod liver oil with relative gusto.
I can’t believe it either.

I am overjoyed that the research and experimentation I’ve done over the last 10 years has resulted in the discovery of foods that not only provide optimum nourishment but also manage to taste delicious.

There’s so much I’ve learned. For instance, when food is prepared using some simple methods that make it easier for our bodies to digest it and absorb its nutrients, it is better able to nourish us and truly satisfy our hunger. Even organic foods provide more nourishment when prepared in this way.

We base our family’s diet around “real food” principles, which means that whenever possible we eat foods that are minimally-processed, homemade, and locally grown. This is how people ate for generations, and since we’ve been eating this way our meals have become more nourishing and a lot tastier!

Explore the blog posts, videos, tutorials, exclusive interviews, and photo archives to find out:

why eating real food makes such a difference

where real food comes from and how to find it near you

what it’s like to prepare these foods – including recipes and step-by-step instructions

how to do a “real food” Recipe Revamp

when to veer off the path and enjoy some special treats!