Category Archives: Tales of Eating

A Farm Like No Other

Posted on 07/06/2013 by fishinthewater

And so begins a story. A story of a pig. Not this exact pig, but a pig very like this pig, from Black Bottom Farm. You might not want to read this post if you find it a little macabre … Continue reading →

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Day 26: Variety

Posted on 26/04/2013 by fishinthewater

I remembered that I started on April 1, so it’s easy to keep track of the days, as long as you don’t count the four days or so where I abandoned the diet entirely and binged on sugar. So not … Continue reading →

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Day, Um, Something: Ongoing

Posted on 25/04/2013 by fishinthewater

So I may have given the impression in my last diet related post that I was giving up the diet. And I kind of intended to. I was really frustrated and having all these cravings and just feeling shitty and … Continue reading →

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Day 14: Winning

Posted on 15/04/2013 by fishinthewater

So today was to be the last day of my diet. But as I read more of the book on tooth decay, I realized the two week mark was just for best case scenarios. No, it could take 6 weeks … Continue reading →

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Day 10: Frustration

Posted on 10/04/2013 by fishinthewater

I know this whole diet is supposed to make me feel better, but mostly I’m just angry. All the time. Or frustrated. Or exhausted- I really have not felt so lethargic in a long time. Here’s my summary so far: … Continue reading →

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Day 5: Madness

Posted on 05/04/2013 by fishinthewater

I tried to drink a bowl of bone broth this morning. Beef broth. Stock. Whatever the hell it’s called. This is what everyone recommends. Improve your health! Drink the broth! It will magically cure every ailment in your body! Weston … Continue reading →

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Day 2: Sugarless

Posted on 02/04/2013 by fishinthewater

No, you didn’t miss day 1. I’ve just been really busy and didn’t get to write yesterday. I’ve always danced around the idea of giving up sugar, by which I meant, refined sugar- you know, candy and that sort of … Continue reading →

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My Tenuous Relationship with Fat

Posted on 14/01/2013 by fishinthewater

The other day I found myself accosted by a vegan. The circumstances are irrelevant, but the odd thing was that is happened several times in a row. Within the hour. Maybe they were secretly all in it together. And I … Continue reading →

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Misc. Food

Posted on 27/07/2012 by fishinthewater

I haven’t done that whole, here’s what we ate this week thing in a long time, for a variety of reasons. We’re almost always eating late at night, after working in the garden, and we’re usually dirty and tired and … Continue reading →

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What I Buy at the Store

Posted on 24/07/2012 by fishinthewater

People often ask me what I buy at the store. Given that we grow most of our vegetables, get our meat from friends, and generally make everything else ourselves, people ask: do we even shop at the store? Recently I … Continue reading →

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