Whole Food Plant Based Diet – Can you do it?
A Whole Food Plant Based diet is like veganism on steroids, on the face of it. There are many arguments about which diet is best for you but this one actually makes sense. This diet involves emphasizing fresh, whole ingredients and minimizing processed foods are superior for overall wellness. This means no cooking at all. […]
An Alternate Food System – The Ups and Downs
We recently received a complaint from a customer that one of the gourds she received had rot inside it. Here’s why that happened. The rot inside was caused by a cucurbit fruit fly. A perfectly normal looking fruit on the outside is spoilt by the fruit fly larvae inside. The cucurbit fruit fly is a […]
Benefits Of Cold Pressed Oils
Cold pressing is the method of oil extraction from oilseeds which may include sesame seed, sunflower seeds, canola, coconut or olive without really using heat to extract as that may degrade the oil’s flavour and nutritional quality. Cold pressing method is the process involving crushing seeds or nuts and forcing out the oil through pressure. […]
Mango Ginger – An Ingredient You Will Love!
Mango ginger is pretty common where I come from(Kerala). I was delighted to find that my local supermarket had started stocking it and rushed to the shelf to stock up. That’s when an extremely concerned store employee came running up to me. “Sir, sir, this not ginger sir! I politely told him that I knew […]
A New Way To Get Farm Fresh Organic Vegetables – Farmizen Tribes
As you may have heard, the food system is broken – for everyone involved. One way to fix it is by making it easy for consumers to buy directly from farmers. But it is easier said than done. How will a farmer in a village discover consumers far away in a city that want to […]
My Experiments With Figs
It’s raining figs and I couldn’t be happier! For me, figs were always something you discovered on a fruit sundae or in an Anjeer(Fig) shake from a roadside vendor. I had never really had it as a fruit because let’s face it, you can’t just walk down to a supermarket and pick up figs – […]