Food is the great universal topic. Go anywhere and talk with just about anyone and know that after pleasantries are exchanged, the conversation will almost always get around to food..eating it, buying it, preparing it. We love to talk about the parties we've attended, bar-b-ques we've hosted, dinners we've made, the desserts we've savored and the recipes we've mastered. I think we are lucky in that our conversations always come back to food in some capacity or another. It's always best when food is shared, both across the table and with our words. Come..let's share the bounty! Cooks talk!

Monday, June 30, 2008

"10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating"

What's wonderful about reading the food sections of the big city newspapers here in Port Orchard is knowing that one, I'll find great reviews for wonderful restaurants that, more than likely, I'll never get a chance to eat at in this lifetime, and two, I'll come across recipes from a wild variety of ethnic groups and regions that I might otherwise miss.

Another thing that comes along with big city newspapers is exposure to a large pool of fellow readers. With the coming of the internet and blogging most newspaper articles and blog posts are now open to commentary. Take, for example, this article that I found in the New York Times a few days ago. It's a basic wellness article on different kinds of foods that are good for you, that you should find fairly easy on your supermarket shelves and that you need to incorporate into your diet for good health. Well, the article was short, which made it easy to clip and save in my wallet. But the comments! My! It was at 190 the day I saved the article for this post. Amazing. Alot of the commentary was in agreement with the author, but like an article I read recently on The 100 Most Important Books You Must Read it wasn't so much the article that thrilled, it was the lists and suggestions from hundreds of people with their own viewpoints on what I need to eat in order to live a better, healthier life.

With that list in hand I suppose it's possible to do just that. Incorporating cinnamon and cabbage and prunes into my life should be easy enough. Beets, well, the jury is out on them but if the doctor says so I'll give them a go in a salad. Let's take along that list to the market, pop those other things into my cart, take them home and stuff them in my pantry. Anything to help make my cooking more interesting is always fine by me. But more than that, anything I can build into my diet that will help my health along is a wonderful plus not only for me but for those around me that will get to hear a bit of healthy commentary out of me, too!

Cooks Talk!

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/the-11-best-foods-you-arent-eating/?em&ex=1214971200&en=49df7aef9ad8754e&ei=5087%0A
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