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My own and other people's attitudes to food, its preparation and consumption.

A beautiful gourmet
A wonderful writer:
My inspiration: MFK Fisher

I first realised one could be passionate about food when I picked up a book by the writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, or MFK Fisher as she is known. The book was titled, With a bold knife and fork and it introduced me to a new way of looking at food. MFK fisher is now over a hundred years
old, slim and healthy" which just proves that you can control your weight without dieting !

Table of Contents

Fabulous food

The best food is often the simplest dish

Perfect risotto!MFK Fisher also wrote The Art of Eating, memorable for its description of the perfect risotto.
A perfect risotto may be made with rice, other vegetables and wine with good bouillon, or meat or chicken stock. It must be cooked exactly right without being too soggy or too much "al dente". MFK Fisher enjoyed hers at a small restaurant in Italy.

Time saving in the kitchen

Keep a well-stocked store cupboard.

A well-stocked store cupboardRecipe:
Instant delicious store cupboard Stilton soup.

Ingredients

Spoonful of Marmite, Bovril, or similar yeast or beef extract or bouillon cube.
crumbled Stilton cheese to taste

Method

Place extract or cube in cup or soup bowl. Add boiling water. Stir. Sprinkle with the Stilton. Wait a minute. Enjoy.

Breakfast

A brilliant nutritionistI love cafes that serve breakfast all day.I always say I never eat breakfast, but that is not quite true. I never eat breakfast at breakfast time but I enjoy it at other times of the day.
I have been known to take a liquid breakfast. Not so much orange juice, more a Bloody Mary, champagne, or Bucks Fizz. Advocaat is breakfast in a bottle - it contains lots of lovely eggs ...

But, of course, the healthy liquid breakfast is a smoothie. David Wolfe, pictured below has lots of delicious, healthy smoothie recipes.

I am supported in my dislike of breakfast time eating by a leading nutritionist, Paavo O Airola, whose picture you see here.

What is your opinion of breakfast?

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Healthy eating

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You can buy food on Amazon!

I was surprised to find I could buy a large range of food via Amazon.
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Drink

David Wolfe, king of the smoothiesDavid Wolfe, king of the smoothies

This is my wholly subjective list of drinks I like:
Smoothies, of course, and also,
Liqueurs; Cherry Brandy, Advocaat

Recipe;

Really cool, sugar free Advocaat

Beat 2oz of whipping cream, then separately beat four eggs. Mix eggs and cream together. Dissolve 3 tablespoons of xylitol (available at large supermarkets) in 5oz of brandy, Slowly add the brandy/xylitol to the cream/eggs, stirring all the while.

Drink right away or refrigerate. It improves after a few days.

I also like Champagne, Spumante, Cava, sparkling Moselle,
red wine
beer ,lager
hot milk shakes
Coffee, tea
fizzy water

Fasting .

Fasting
Surprisingly perhaps, an interest in good food also encompasses an interest in when to refrain from eating.
Experts in medicine will tell you that your body does not need to fast. This is true, but would your body like to fast? I think it would.
Digesting food takes a tremendous amount of time and energy. Most of us do not leave enough time for our food to digest before we go off and expend energy on something else. This practice may eventually lead to a system that is clogged with undigested food particles. Fasting gives the body a chance to take care of this kind of unfinished business, which is the main reason why those who fast regularly enjoy better health and longer lives.

Therese Neumann refrained from eating for several years.
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Elimination

Most advisors will tell you that meat is the most difficult of all foods for humans to digest. this is because. like apes, we have a long intestine. Natural meat eating animals have a short intestine. The meat does not hang around in their body for long. With humans, the meat remains for quite a while, putrefying, in the long intestine, making gasses and bloating and sometimes leading to serious illness.

Food related writing by Em Saenz

poetry and prose about food

food poem
Sometimes the best meals are informal and unexpected
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Hate food because it makes you fat? It doesn't have to be that way!
Good stuff doesn't have to cost a lot
Never skimp on food. Get the best bargains

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