Interviews with Michael Pollan

If you're like me, you enjoy reading and hearing about relevant health and nutrition issues.  Michael Pollan's books are informative and open your eyes to the many problems in our diet and food supply.  Here are some links to recent interviews about his new book Food Rules.

Epicurious Interview

The New York Times

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 

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Great Gift Ideas

Vegetarian Times Magazine is a great publication with wonderful recipes and enticing pictures. It features vegetarian, vegan and now gluten free recipes. The editors really try to provide a little something for everyone. I'm a flexitarian. My family loves to feast on vegetable dishes, so such a publication is not wasted on us. I am thrilled to hear that gluten-free choices will now appear in all their issues. I thought I would share the good news, seeing how most us are still shopping around for gifts for our loved-ones.





Another one of my favorite publications is Living Without Magazine: the articles are always interesting and their delicious recipes are varied and well explained.








For a great newsletter on nutrition, check out Nutrition Action: The Center for Science in Public Interest publishes this monthly gem. They are an advocacy group for nutrition, health, food safety, and sound science. Each issue is full of reliable, unbiased studies and analyses. Their food reviews are presented with an impeccable sense of humor.





Giving magazines and newsletters as gifts is truly the gift that keeps on giving: the recipient thinks of you every time they receive an issue. Now, as much as I would love for any of those publications to ask me to write for them, I am not affiliated with any of them--just an avid reader. Feel free to share your favorites as well. Happy Holiday Shopping!

Here are some Vegetarian Times gluten free recipes:

Pizza 5 ways
Country Bread

Worthy Read

It has been hot as hell here, which means that about the only thing I feel like doing is reading. I have been making my way through Gluten-Free Girl by Shauna James Ahern--more like inhaling it actually. Shauna is the author of an awesome blog: Gluten-Free Girl. I am already 2/3 of the way done and I just started it two days ago. It makes for a very interesting read even for people who are not Celiacs. In the book, she discusses her journey from suffering without a diagnosis to embracing the discovery that she had Celiac Disease. She writes in a fun, light, friendly and yet passionate manner about her love for food, and how it was expended and not limited by her health. Seattle has a lot to offer food-wise and she brings it home to you in a delightful way.