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Your Healthy Winter Skin

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Your Healthy Winter Skin Wintertime is notorious for leaving people with dry, chapped skin, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are some easy tips for healthier skin. In the nutrition world the mantra is: if all else fails, support your liver. Your liver, like your skin, is a detoxifying organ and the… Read More

Cooking Terms

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It’s never too soon to teach your kids all about cooking. It’s such an important life skill. Why not start with some cooking terms? We have found that kids enjoy learning them. Here are a few terms to get you started. Kitchen Terminology ~A~   Acidulated water: This is when water has lemon juice or… Read More

Intentional Health

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Here’s an example for you from this morning. I had just poured the boiling water over my tea bag, and during the four minutes it took to steep, I placed greens and veggies in a glass bowl-three actually-which took about the same amount of time as one; a four minute assembly line. I then placed… Read More

Kids and Climate Change

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The next class,  will be the second class in the series we entitled, ‘Almost Any Problem Can Be Solved in the Kitchen’. It will be on Tuesday, March 28th from 5:00 to 7:00, in Santa Rosa, CA. Address to be sent out a few days prior to class. I am teaching this class as part… Read More

The First Class in the Series

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This year-long series of classes comes under the auspice of Almost Any Problem Can Be Solved in the Kitchen. The first 3-part series is on climate change and food choices. The first class was last evening and our guest speaker was Susan Krout Muller from Pasture 42 in the Capay Valley. Please go to www.pasture42.com… Read More