Proposed law could keep wine flowing at Gaithersburg culinary school
Chris Cullen of Kensington (center) holds a container of cognac as Travis Bednar of Germantown prepares smoked shrimp flambé.
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O.C. foodie could travel world with Pei Wei
When Pei Wei announced in the fall that it was on a hunt for an adventurous food blogger who could chronicle the fast-casual chain’s culinary travels in Asia, many local foodies immediately turned to MarianTheFoodie. Tustin blogger Marian…
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I-10 in SE Texas could be closed until Tuesday
A stretch of Interstate 10 in southeast Texas could be closed until late Tuesday after a wreck caused a tanker truck to spill a hazardous chemical and left the driver hurt.
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Cooking, writing class could be available next year
Chefs, foodies and hungry students alike may be glad to know a cooking and writing class is in the works at OSU. Chair of the English department, Kerry Ahearn, and assistant writing director and writing instructor, Sara Jameson, recently discussed the idea which, if approved will be taught by Jameson and available in the winter of 2011 under the special topics writing courses.
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Unfortunately with the easy and ready availability of processed foods, organic eating habits arenât as wide spread as they could be. Even those of us who prefer not to literally riddle our bodies with pesticides and chemical toxins find that sometimes a fast food meal from our favorite drive-in or takeaway is easier than going to the trouble of preparing our own organically cooked meals.
I have to admit that I sometimes even go to the lengths of heating up a TV dinner when Iâm too tired to even lift a finger to dial the pizza joint for a meal that has to be better than a first frozen and then nuked meal eaten in solitary confinement in front of the TV.
In fact this is why I turned to organic eating habits to begin with, to get out of the rut that my life had fallen into. It did take some doing, and I did fall off the organic eating wagon quite a few times, but perseverance finally won through and I was out of my fast food junkie and TV dinner rut, and onto the benefits of organic eating.
The problem is though, that sometimes Iâm just too tired to bother about cooking a meal for myself and thatâs when I resort to the fast foods or the TV dinners. In order to combat the seductive quality of these fast paced lifestyle ruts, I even went so far as to find and buy organic TV dinners, but common sense finally set in on that one, and I switched back to stocking my freezer with non-organic TV dinners.
Why? Simply for the reason that after all the processing these foods have gone through, along with the freezing process, and then the nuking, it renders useless any type of goodness that might be found in the foods. So why pay more for what turns out to be essentially the same item? That was my theory anyway.
If you decide to follow an organic eating regime however, you will find that your life just became healthier and more difficult at the same time. It became healthier because youâre eradicating pesticides and other toxins from your body, and it became more difficult because now you have a larger monthly food bill, and you also have to search specifically for organic foods!
The benefits however, far outweigh the disadvantages, and you will most definitely be glad later on that you went to the trouble to change your eating habits to organic eating habits.
Muna wa Wanjiru is a Web Administrator and Has Been Researching and Reporting on Organic Foods for Years. For More Information on Organic Eating, Visit His Site at Organic Eating
