General kitchen advice

If you're eating foods out of season, it's likely that they have come a long way - try to eat food that is both locally produced and can be found at that time of year, locally!

Most food, from fruit to fish, has a season -a time when it is abundant and at its best. Knowledge about food's seasons was once essential to survival and became culturally ingrained over the centuries. Today, we have all but lost this accumulated wisdom. Does this matter, in an age where technology can bring us anything we want to eat, whenever we want it?

Dieting 101

The Zone Diet
The Zone diet is a weight loss program primarily suggested by Barry Sears in a number of books. The Zone diet is not exactly a fat reduction diet, although some people believe that they really manage to lose weight by following the zone diet.
The science behind the Zone Diet is that if one were to gain control of the secretion of insulin and glucogen (two hormones), then anti-inflammatory chemicals are released which, as a result puts one's body in a state of balance that is more healthy than it normally is, known as the 'zone'.
Sears claims that if you get into this 'zone', your metabolism is much more efficient and, as a result, doesn't build up fat.
The most interesting process of the zone diet is to maintain the precise ratio of carbohydrates to proteins, and to ensure your diet has high levels of Omega 3 fish oils.

Great Gazpacho Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

3 c Vegetable or tomato juice

1 md Onion; minced

2 md Tomatoes; diced

1 Green bell pepper; minced

1 Garlic clove; crushed

1 md Cucumber; diced

2 tb Lemon juice

2 tb Red wine vinegar

1 ts Dried tarragon

1 ts Minced fresh basil

1 pn Ground cumin

1 ds Hot sauce

2 tb Olive oil

Salt and pepper; to taste Combine all ingredients and chill for 2 hours. HINT: Out of time? Forget al the mincing and chopping. Cube the vegetables, then throw all of the ingredients into a blender or food processor and blend slowly until the vegetables are chunky and the soup is well blended. Preparation time: 15-40 minutes Chilling time: 2 hours Source: The Compassionate Cook - by Ingrid Newkirk and PETA Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

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<h1>Great Gazpacho</h1>
    <b>Ingredients And Procedures</b><p>
        <TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=3 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><P>3 c Vegetable or tomato juice <P>1 md Onion; minced <P>2 md Tomatoes; diced <P>1 Green bell pepper; minced <P>1 Garlic clove; crushed <P>1 md Cucumber; diced <P>2 tb Lemon juice <P>2 tb Red wine vinegar <P>1 ts Dried tarragon <P>1 ts Minced fresh basil <P>1 pn Ground cumin <P>1 ds Hot sauce <P>2 tb Olive oil <P>Salt and pepper; to taste Combine all ingredients and chill for 2 hours. HINT: Out of time? Forget al the mincing and chopping. Cube the vegetables, then throw all of the ingredients into a blender or food processor and blend slowly until the vegetables are chunky and the soup is well blended. Preparation time: 15-40 minutes Chilling time: 2 hours Source: The Compassionate Cook - by Ingrid Newkirk and PETA Typed for you by Karen Mintzias <BR><BR></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>     <p>
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