Ice cream is one of those things that can either be horrible — made of cheap fillers, refined sugars, and low-quality, hormone- and antibiotic-laden milk — or can be nothing short of lush. It is, however, very difficult to find lush ice cream. (The reason I joined a cowshare program to get top-notch, grass-fed, beyond-organic [...]
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For many of us, gingerbread is a favorite holiday treat…albeit a very buttery, sweet one. But it doesn’t have to be that way! For this tweak, I’ve substituted unsweetened applesauce for some of the sugar and butter, used sucanat and dark molasses instead of white sugar and light molasses–this means more iron and more flavor–and [...]
When I was living in Costa Rica, I visited a sugarcane and coffee plantation. Standing in the 100-degree sun surrounded by bamboo-like sugarcane and bright red coffeeberries was an amazing experience…and so was tasting a piece of raw sugarcane that one of the workers snapped off and handed to me. Now I know what sugar [...]
