GAPS Diet in Massachusetts

Every once in awhile, I make a dish that everyone thinks is so delicious, that they eagerly ask me for the recipe. This particular very simple roast chicken invariably gets that response. It’s because it is really so yummy.  I often make it for my dinner guests, and their intense desire to acquire the recipe…

Today I am going to write about a topic that fascinates me, faecal transplant. It first attracted my attention when I heard an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air with Dr. Jeffrey Gordon, a professor at Washington University in St Louis, who is engaged in a project to catalogue the human biome, the microbial communities that…

  Today is the Winter Solstice, an astronomical event that officially ushers in the season of winter. This is a time characterized by extremity. The shortest day and longest night of the year. In my office, it is also a time of extreme feeling. It is the HOLIDAY SEASON, a time when familial relationships take center…

A copy of the New Yorker magazine from mid November has been sitting on my bedside table, waiting for me to get around to reading an article about Steve Jobs by Malcolm Gladwell (author of Blink and The Tipping Point)  called “The Tweaker”. I have a passion for all things Apple, and mourned the recent death…

I love rice. All varieties, white and brown, short and long grain, nutty basmati and fragrant jasmine.  I adore the smell of it cooking. I love spicy Thai and Indian curries over mounds of rice, and even eating rice with just butter and salt. It’s the ultimate comfort food for me. Others have similar feelings…