Archive for July 2012
I’m Outta Here—Hang Gliding
I half heartedly considered putting up something on the blog last night. Went nowhere. Beatrice took me out for sushi instead. I had just put version 2.0 of the book to bed—off to the editor—and we’ll see what comes of it. I ended up working far more on V2 than V1. It’s done for me,…
Read MoreMan Alive! Chapter 9: The High Cost of Mindlessness
Here’s the post that kicked it all off. This is chapter 9 of 12, to give interested readers the chance to take on the free ebook chapter by chapter over the weekend, debate it amongst themselves, or even challenge the author who’s keeping tabs. ~~~ From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind.…
Read MoreDr. Garth Davis, Surgeon: I Warned You….
Dr. Garth Davis, after having—probably blissfully confident—posted comments in the original Forks Over Knives thread I blogged about (Doctor FAIL: Garth Davis, Bariatric Surgeon (and China Study Balderdash)) basically did the same blissfully confident, dismissive commenting on that post. Such as this: This is one of the funniest yet saddest commentaries I have ever seen. You…
Read MoreComing Full Circle
I’ve tried a lot of stuff over the years. It’s so easy initially, because when you switch to real food in place of processed and fast, there’s a spontaneous reduction in caloric intake for nearly everyone. That’s why both paleo and LC work so well initially for the fat people out there. Amazing how switching…
Read MoreMy Current Paleo Anarchist Landscape; The Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 and the 21 Convention
Yea, I maybe want to blog more about fat bread and applications, including mayonnaise making, tuna salad and all sorts of cool such things which, quite to the contrary of motivating me to go hog wild with neolithic foods, has had quite the opposite effect. More on that later. I’m dashing to finish up V2.0…
Read MoreBlogging to Resume Shortly
Well, I’m two chapters away from completing version 2.0 of Free the Animal: How to lose weight and fat on The paleo diet. It’s actually been a lot more work than version 1 for me, for various reasons but mostly because I really want to improve it a lot. Anyway, that’s what’s been taking up…
Read MoreMan Alive! Chapter 8: The Integrity of Art
Here’s the post that kicked it all off. This is chapter 8 of 12, to give interested readers the chance to take on the free ebook chapter by chapter over the weekend, debate it amongst themselves, or even challenge the author who’s keeping tabs. ~~~ From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind.…
Read MoreFat Bread: Third Time’s The Charm. Mission Accomplished!
Here’s the third—and likely final installment for a while—in my quest to make a decent bread…that not only tastes and acts like bread, but excels in terms of Paleo nutrition. Mission accomplished. Future posts will focus on sensible applications of this bread. For those still uninterested in bread, I get it. Why mess with a…
Read MoreGrains, Vegetarians, Vegans and Nutritional Density
Yesterday I posted about how well it’s going with the book and its 2nd Edition. Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 3 on grains, vegetarianism, veganism and a bunch of nutritional comparisons. This is first draft stuff, so it has yet to go to the editor or proofreading. Those who read the first edition will notice…
Read MoreThe Book, Free The Animal, 2nd Edition (and: Do You Want to Author a Book Yourself, with Help?)
Isn’t it cool that with eBooks, you can go to 2nd Edition only 6 months after publishing the first? I follow Seth Godin’s Domino Project posts on ePublishing and I think he’s dead on. This is the future, while all the while I see book after paleo book coming to be published in the traditional way.…
Read MoreClassic: Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad With Real Dressing
You know what the hell is funny? It’s googling for a proper caesar dressing recipe, only to find most of them with no raw egg yolk or anchovy. That is not caesar dressing. Not in this world. Luckily, I already know how. Ingredients: 2 anchovy fillets, finely chopped 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped 2…
Read MoreOne For Those Who Don’t Like Me
I’ll sing the praises of tumblr first. “Those” get a brief mention later. I got a micro-blog off and running, as I trumpeted yesterday…and, well, let’s just say I’m impressed with the individuality and anarchy of the thing—as least so far as I’m seeing (exceptions always abound). Literally: there is everything there, as audaciously unabashed and…
Read MoreFat Bread, Part Deux
Here’s part one, where the first attempt was made. While the results for that high-fat, low carb, moderate protein (from eggs, not gluten) bread were decent, I wanted to improve. A bit more rise, a bit less dense, and good adhesion, i.e., sticking together. Success! First, I want to relate something odd but very surprisingly…
Read MoreSamePlate.com: Meet Your Paleo, Primal, LC, or Caveman/woman Match
You already know Jeff Nimoy from the bread post (there’s another loaf in the oven right now—with mods—and it looks very promising). Anyway, in addition to being The Cooking Caveman, he’s also the founder of SamePlate.com, a dating site dedicated to initially matching people by their food and dietary preferences. Damn fine idea, if you…
Read MoreAnimal Parts
Well, I’ve taken the tumblr plunge. For some time I’ve checked out various people’s tumblr posts and have always tended to like the micro blogging aspect of how most people do it (far more elegant than Facebook, a bit more panache than Twitter). Often, it’s just a photo or image, no ‘splainin. I’ve often wanted…
Read MoreFat Bread: Paleo Bread Made From Fat
Ha, bet that got your attention.
It’s not entirely true, of course, but you’ll see what I mean later. One thing I can tell you up front is that this recipe uses no seed, grain, or nut flour—and neither is it virtually all egg, or egg with cheese, like Oopsie Bread.
Backing up a few days, I was scanning the comment thread on that ridiculous Forks Over Knives piece and came across a comment from a writer and voice actor in LA, Jeff Nimoy. Like I sometimes do when I don’t recognize someone, I shoot over to their blog if they have one, to see if there’s any there, there. And indeed there was. I took an immediate liking to it—likely in part because the guy is a professional writer and things like that matter to me.
Read MoreMan Alive! Chapter 7: A Calculus of Morality on a First-Grade Number Line
Here’s the post that kicked it all off. This is chapter 7 of 12, to give interested readers the chance to take on the free ebook chapter by chapter over the weekend, debate it amongst themselves, or even challenge the author who’s keeping tabs. ~~~ From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind.…
Read MoreFun With Kettlebells, Clifton Harski, Dr. BG, and Big Meat
I’d been looking forward to this for a while. Things just came together. A couple of weeks ago, the way cool Clifton Harski got in touch, offered to come over and school me, I offered a BBQ in return, and as luck would have it, Dr. BG (Grace) (link removed) is back from China for a…
Read MoreDoctor FAIL: Garth Davis, Bariatric Surgeon (and China Study Balderdash)
Don’t you just love it when someone purports to be an authority, bemoans the fact that nowadays, people have little need of such self-proclaimed authorities and actually—gasp—go find their own information, act upon it, and manage their own issues? Hell, they might even go to an English major! By now, most everyone has heard of…
Read MoreWon’t Get Fooled Again! Who? You.
I half heartedly considered putting up something on the blog last night. Went nowhere. Beatrice took me out for sushi instead. I had just put version 2.0 of the book to bed—off to the editor—and we’ll see what comes of it. I ended up working far more on V2 than V1. It’s done for me,…
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