Kitchen confidential
It is 7:30 on a Saturday evening and I’m at Vele, an upscale restaurant in downtown Springfield. It’s a busy night and the dining room is...
Not for the rich, for the planet In praise of Vicia
Peter Glatz with Vicia’s Tara and Michael Gallina. It was the middle of the afternoon of my second day staging at the celebrated new St....
Vegetable Forward Cuisine
Vegetable-forward cuisine Vegetables make their way to the center of the plate Last month I was in St. Louis on an unseasonably warm...
What is real food? Don’t ask Dr. Kellogg
Fifteen years ago, when my wife began thinking about teaching cooking classes, she asked me to help her come up with a name for her new...
Pimp your veggies!
Every morning as the clock approaches 7 a.m. the folks in my CrossFit gym cluster in little groups to socialize for a few minutes before...
The fast way to health and weight loss How a Springfield group transformed itself by intermittent fa
In the guidebook for Narcotics Anonymous there is a paragraph which begins: “We have a disease; progressive, incurable and fatal.” The...
Getting back into the kitchen- two books will show you how
Our society is experiencing an epidemic of obesity and diabetes with the root cause of insulin resistance. Insulin resistance develops...
Farming On the Earth
In 1970, when I was 17 years old, I bought a book entitled Living on the Earth by Alicia Bay Laurel. It was illustrated with beautiful...
Bertha Bus Cooks for Hard Working Americans at Johnny Cash's Cabin Studio
I was in Montreal for my annual get-together trip with my son Robb. We were in a quiet gallery at the Marc Chagall exhibit at the...
