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Free-Form Ferments
Eight years ago, I moved away from home, the first move in what was to become a long series of geographic fluidity: four-years in New York, a summer in Eastern Maine, a semester in Prague, some months...
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Immune Boosting Baby Steps
Something extraordinary happened this past Saturday. While on the train to Basel, I received a text message from my older brother with the words “wheatgrass”, “immune system” and “juicing” in it....
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Vitamin D 4Ever
Note from Lucas O.: We’re all children of the sun, right? I’m not being religious, I’m just thinking of how bright we all become in summer, like sunflowers growing tall. This picture was taken last...
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Diss on Detox (While Drinking an OJ)
Blogger’s Note: Late winter speaks to my senses for one main reason: citrus-season, specifically, blood-orange-season. This just so happens to coincide with another, more recently-invented season:...
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Last-Stretch-of-Winter Lemons
It’s nearly March, which means (from a glass-half-full vantage) that it’s nearly Spring or (from a glass-half-empty one) that citrus season is nearing its end and that it’s nigh time for us in the...
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Collaboration Celebration #1: Maria’s Lentil Salad
I met Maria during the tail-end of my nutrition studies and was immediately drawn to her intelligent, confident and good-humored nature (and this amazing crocheted sweater that, if I recall correctly,...
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Collaboration Celebration #2: School Lunch with Natalie Klamm
Oh Hey! I’m Natalie and I’m from that good ol’ cheese loving, sturgeon fishing state of Wisconsin. Lauren and I met this past year while studying nutrition in Vancouver and we just mingled and...
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Nutrition Rule #1: Nourish Yourself
It seems that Winter has blown its last breath in Geneva. Hallelujah! March is long gone (& so swiftly did it pass, with many thanks to the kind friends who participated in last month’s...
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Kombucha + New Conversations on Nutrition
These past few weeks, I’ve been taking a break from a dear old friend. A friend that, through the years, I’ve gotten to know pretty well, intimately, even, as this friend has taken up residence with...
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Embracing the Natural Detoxification Process of Summer
Heather and I are kindred spirits. She’s a holistic nutritionist from California who loves surfing, hiking, traveling and learning about the body. She writes about nutrition and health on her blog,...
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Sardines 4 Breakfast and Anti-Smoothisms
While sitting outside on our tiny terrace the other day polishing off my breakfast of potato salad and oily sardines in the late morning sun, I got to thinking about the first meal of the day and how...
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Kitchen Medicine: Letting Go of Old Maxims, Cooking Intuitively
(Photo from Lucas Olivet) I’ve been thinking a lot about medicine lately, the multifarious forms it can take. There’s plant medicine which, in itself, contains legions: the pocket-size bottle of...
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Immune Boosting Baby Steps
Something extraordinary happened this past Saturday. While on the train to Basel, I received a text message from my older brother with the words “wheatgrass”, “immune system” and “juicing” in it....
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