The holidays are here, and it’s my favorite time of the year. I have many memories of cooking and making fruit cakes with my mom. For those unaware of what a traditional West Indian fruit cake is, imagine a cake made with raisins, currants, prunes, and orange peel. The fruits are steamed and soaked in […]
How the Food in the United States Differs from Europe and the Impact on your Health This summer, my family and I vacationed in Portugal, and our palettes were pleasantly surprised by how different the foods we love tasted there compared to back in the US. I had read about the differences between the food […]
It often seems cheaper to eat poorly. A few packages of factory-farmed meat, a gallon of commercially produced milk, butter, white bread, potato chips, cereal, chocolate chip cookies, instant potatoes, minute-rice, frozen lasagna and pizza, ice cream, and soda on sale — yep, it’s cheap. But when you change your eating habits from bad to […]