Category: Healthy Food

A weekend last month … Post Sunday morning yoga has led to me rambling down memory lane … Not so many yoga studios back then so just doing Hatha yoga at University Ave YMCA … no music, no frills. So happy with so little to nothing … bare bone class … I wonder if that’s changed also …
Can you believe I used to live here on the first floor 3BR shared with 2 other roommates way back when? Not this nice of a paint-job back then – everything around the neighborhood has transformed into this upscale hip, almost chic, “gourmet ghetto” … I lamented ever leaving this place …it’s just so convenient with Cheese Board around the corner and … brings back memories. Spent some of the best times of my life here … (notice it appears to be all fond foods related?)

Ha ha ha

Love their simple healthy food …(almost) just like home:)

Can’t believe either that this very hip new cafe has replaced what used to be a very sort of run down vegetarian Chinese restaurant that was across the street from where I lived … it is a very weird feeling to revisit where you spent your young and hopelessly idealistic days … The flagship Pete’s Coffee is still at the corner on Walnut Square and …
OMG – Juice Bar Collective – I love this place… it hasn’t changed … still a hole in the wall – so relieved… it’s pretty much the same.
Yes, still the same menu – Polenta with black beans and salsa (rather than cheese for vegans) … yummy – tastes still the same, yes:) What a relief.

These and only these books were showcased at Mission Heirloom Garden Cafe … puzzled. Isn’t Paleo diet about eating like the Paleos did – which included meat for the hunting tribes but not for non-hunting tribes. I feel more connected to my ancestors who ate no four-legged mammals and supplemented the vegetables and grains with fresh seafood from the ocean that surrounds that beautiful home country. (I am sorry about the whales … ignorance leads one to do stupid things – I recall eating some whale … it was in the elementary school lunch program menu … ahhhhgh I am sorry, I didn’t know better and each student was required to finish everything served. Yet, there’s also a belief that as long as you eat what’s served with gratitude for the life sacrificed before you, lovingly prepared, all food is nourishing, becoming part of your flesh, the divinity within honored… )

Paleo Code? Can you take the meat out? Can this be plant based? And speaking of ancestors, different race/groups relative to their land, the climate they are placed in, may have a very different food culture. Wonder if this code takes that into consideration… i.e., about diversity. I recall deep fried grass hoppers in Thailand (did not eat them but heaps of them at street vendors…) so … wonder.

Here’s an excerpt from Nipponia to that point:

“Any history of food in Japan has to include the many centuries when eating the meat of four-legged animals was forbidden. The first law prohibiting meat eating was issued in the year 675, a little more than 100 years after the arrival of Buddhism.
In the 7th and 8th centuries, when a new emperor came to the throne he would issue an Imperial edict forbidding meat consumption. This was because, according to Buddhist belief, killing animals is wrong. The fact that these edicts were issued from time to time indicates that some found it hard to give up eating meat. But by around the 10th century just about everyone had stopped eating it.
In China and the Korean peninsula, the Buddhist clergy were not allowed to eat meat or fish, but in Japan even ordinary people did not eat meat. This was partly because of Buddhism, and partly because even the indigenous religion, Shinto, considered that eating the flesh of animals was unclean.
But the rule extended only to meat from mammals, not seafood. Whales are mammals, but the common folk thought of them as big fish and there was no prohibition against killing and eating them. Wild birds were also eaten. There was a belief that chickens and roosters were messengers working for the Shinto gods, and their meat and eggs were not eaten until the 15th century.
The indigenous Ainu of Hokkaido in northern Japan depended considerably on food from wild birds, animals and plants, and deer and bear meat was an important part of their diet. In the far south, the Ryukyu Kingdom in the Okinawan islands was in a different jurisdiction and prohibitions against meat eating did not apply. People there raised pigs, goats and other animals and ate their meat. In mountainous areas on the main islands of Japan, people who made their living fishing the mountain streams would hunt wild mammals for their fur and medicinal properties, and eat the meat of what they caught. And others, hoping to cure some illness or build up their strength, might practice kusuri-gui (eating medicinal flesh of wild animals). But in spite of all this, animals were not raised for meat, and for many centuries meat consumption in Japan was remarkably low.
Like their neighbors in China and the Korean peninsula, the Japanese did not drink the milk of domestic animals, and the manufacture of dairy products did not occur until much later. It is no wonder, then, that preparing fish for the table developed into a fine art.”