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First of all, I’m going to be blogging about a crock pot brisket & fennel. Most amazing smell as this is cooking, ever. Can’t believe it. See the last post on grassfed beef.
So as I’m enjoying that smell, perhaps Rotor & Nanuka ("Nuke") are too because they’re so friendly. Perhaps they’re more interested in plate [...]

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A reader email this morning with an important question I ought to address here.

Let me preface this by saying I’m just starting out on my Paleo/Primal journey. I am also terrible at wading my way through scientific studies, and have the kind of luck where I think I’ve got something covered, and then some other [...]

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I’d like to announce that Mark Sisson’s The Primal Blueprint — the book I now consider to supersede Loren Cordain’s The Paleo Diet as the go-to guide — is now for sale via Free The Animal (see "The Store" on the right sidebar).
Yes, I’ll receive money when you purchase via this website, so go immediately [...]

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If any of you would like to follow along with the summer climbing season on Everest, the FirstAscent Team and their blog is the place to go. Here’s why: I’ve got that same machined aluminum MacBook Pro in the 15″ and 2.66 gig version. I’ve owned dozens of computers over time, but this just smokes anything and everything, including the desktops I’ve owned. The only thing remotely comparable is the previous generation MacBook Pro I owned. I will never, ever go back to PCs.

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Reader and commenter Tin Tin sent me the following and it’s really special. It aired on Australia’s 60-Minutes program. Backyard Revolution. Of course, as with virtually everything you see, there’s the continual emphasis on eating plants and demonization of fat. But look beyond that. This is more about real food, and even more — if you pay close attention — this is about taking responsibility for your food and ultimately, mastery and control of your own life. The video is about 12 minutes long, the first half of which is about backyard gardening, primarily. The second half is better, featuring Link Walker — who lives off the land along with his family — and professor Kerin O’Dea. It’s slightly funny that so much of the piece is about fruits and vegetables (”Low in Fat!!! Yea”), yet watch what Link and his family are up to: getting meat, and lots of it. Here’s a notable quote from O’Dea, who took Australian Aborigines suffering from the typical laundry list of modern diseases into the bush to live off the land for seven weeks: We lived off the land for seven weeks and in that time, all of the metabolic abnormalities of diabetes…

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