For years Greg Cole, professor at UCLA’s school of medicine and associate director of its Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, has been on the trail of the relationship between diet and Alzheimer’s Disease. He’s written about the effects of cucurmin (it’s usually called turmeric on the spice jar), and has been studying fish oil, known to destroy a certain protein [...]
Archive for December, 2007
A gift from the deep
Posted in health on December 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Holiday gumbo
Posted in Local people, Virginia food on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last night we made a big gumbo to put an end to the ham and turkey we’ve been eating lately. There was even some leftover pork roast to put in the huge, 20-quart stock pot, for a slow simmer with tomatoes and chicken stock. This is a nice change, I think, from warmed over holiday food, bland but rich, the meat drier [...]
A Green Season
Posted in Local people on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our ancestors brought cuttings of evergreen shrubs and trees into their homes as the season grew bleak and cold, to remind them of spring and green life to come. If you’re already dreaming of spring and want your house to look and smell like Christmas, now’s the time to assemble whatever you can find in the way of [...]
Fresh from the Mill
Posted in Virginia food, Virginia wine on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In Raphine, Georgie and Jim Young grind corn and wheat into flour in much the same way it was done a century ago. At Wade’s Mill,the product of the miller’s art is beautiful and delicious: coarse, fresh meal that’s never overheated or chemically enhanced. At a cooking lesson last Saturday, Georgia showed us how to [...]
