We are a baseball family. I have been devoted to the Chicago Cubs since the mid-seventies when I fell in love with the game and, ahem, Bill Buckner and Manny Trillo. I even got to meet Bill Buckner. Be still my beating heart. And had he stayed with the Cubs,…
While my daughter Natalie was the first person to open my eyes to a better way of eating, my first professional Real Food Hero was Lisa Leake. Her book 100 Days of Real Food was a game changer for me. It’s a perfect Real Foods 101 introduction to removing processed…
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. This is Michael Pollan’s mantra. I first saw Michael Pollan’s name when his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma was front and center on the best seller rack at Barnes and Noble. The title caught my eye, but since I was homeschooling two young children at…
If you follow the Real Food Movement you may come across names like journalist and activist Michael Pollan, journalist and filmmaker Eric Schlosser, urban farmer Will Allen, and cookbook author Lisa Leake. You probably won’t come across my daughter’s name. Not yet, anyway! Natalie started helping me in the garden…
