On hot summer days, watermelon is the perfect fruit to eat or even drink. The water content is really high – over 90% – which makes it one of the best choices with regards to staying hydrated. Best of all, it tastes great too! These fruits are full of nutrition as well. They are an [...] Read more »
Healthy Homemade Vegetable Juice Recipes
Juice extractors are becoming an ever-popular kitchen appliance. Each year sales go up as more people seek out ways to improve their health and well-being, and fresh homemade juice recipes really are an excellent addition to any health-promoting life-style. Fresh juice is abundant in living enzymes, vitamins and minerals, and provides a super dose of [...] Read more »
Green Tea and Weight Loss – 2 Human Studies
Green tea is the second most popular beverage in the world, second only to water. Although black tea has been the type of tea most popular in the West, green tea is now gaining more ground as study after study reveals just how healthy this drink is. However, green tea has been the favorite beverage [...] Read more »
About Thai Cuisine
Globally, Thai cuisine is one of the most popular types of food because we can find Thai restaurants all over the world. The same is true of Italian, Chinese, French and Japanese food. You do not, for example, find English or German restaurants in each country that you visit. The reason for the popularity of [...] Read more »
Making pizza from scratch
There is a growing trend among food lovers towards creating as many components as possible of a dish from scratch, out of the basic building blocks. For example, making a BLT out of homemade bread, home grown lettuce and tomatoes, and home cured bacon. Taking this to the extremes would involve growing your own wheat, [...] Read more »
Who Or What Is Inari?
Inari, the Japanese kami (sometimes translated as God but perhaps spirt provides a better understanding) is one of the most important kami in Shinto. This spirt has been worshiped since possibly as early as the 5th century. The Inari kami is worshiped for a number of reasons. One of them is for a successful rice [...] Read more »
The Humble Potato?
Potatoes are a staple of the American diet that has been around for a long time, but did you know that they are in the same family as the deadly Nightshade plant? In fact, potatoes contain a small amount of the toxin solanine, but as long as you don’t go out gathering wild potatoes, you [...] Read more »
