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Demystifying Money: What is it Really; How Does it Work?

February 27, 2013 31 Comments

I'll explain to you how that $900, when created properly, is the most powerful, abundant money humans ever created and is backed by the very basis of our survival as a species.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: banking, central bank, fractional reserve, interest rates, money

The Free the Animal Newsletter Kicks Off in Earnest

February 27, 2013 4 Comments

Let's talk about: Big changes to the blog; Making the newsletter exclusive; Helping people as a focus; and a New dietary experiment.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: milk, milk diet, newsletter, raw milk

David Brown on the Demise of Saturated Fat Phobia and the Hazard of Omega-6

February 26, 2013 12 Comments

few are aware that the food supply would be far less toxic if its omega-6 content were drastically reduced.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: heart disease, mortality, omega-6 fat, saturated fat, vegetable oils

Do You UNDER-stand?

February 25, 2013 10 Comments

recognizing your own assumptions & paradigms, how your logic-truth is formed by them, and how that creates conflicts with those of different assumptions, paradigms and consequent logic.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: individualism, omnicentric mind, philosophy, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura

I’m Crazy About Kefir and Kombucha

February 25, 2013 62 Comments

Alright, I admit I used to roll my eyes at all the talk in PGP circles (Pretty Good Paleo) over making and drinking Kefir, and brewing and drinking Kombucha. I probably even laffed out loud once it twice, too.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: vitamin d, Vitamin K2, diet, weight loss, raw milk, milk diet, kefir, kombucha

The 12th Anniversary Weekend

February 24, 2013 7 Comments

…Just a bit of housekeeping first. Professor Hamilton M. Stapell would like to invite the ancestral health community to participate in a new online survey. Go have a look and answer a few questions.

Thursday afternoon Beatrice & I headed down to Carmel, CA where 12 years ago we tied the knot—after about five years of being together, getting a house & dog, all that domestic stuff. We brought the dogs.

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The beach at Carmel

Thursday evening, after a stop at the patio at Hog’s Breath Inn and then the rooftop at Vesuvio, we decided on dinner at Casanova.

We’ve been here a couple of times going back and it has always been fabulous. It’s been some years—probably five or six—and since we’re staying right across the street, why not?

We shared two apps.

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Octopus & clams, fennel & orange on a chickpea purée

Escargot & bone marrow, new carrots on a demi-glace

Then on to the main dishes.

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Scallops on a carrot purée for Bea
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Rack of lamb for me

Bea’s scallops were perhaps the best scallop texture I’ve ever had. I asked about recommended temperature for the lamb and the chef recommended medium, not medium rare. Said the taste comes out better. I think he was right. Different meats, different cuts, different temperatures, different textures & tastes.

Here’s how they serve a coffee.

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How cute

The next morning we had breakfast at my favorite little hole in the wall, Friar Tucks. Then it was the walk on the beach and a bit through the neighborhood to find that houses you’d think might bring $3.5 mil were on the market for $7.5 mil, etc. Not in my life. Plus, I want a beach villa and 12 rustic guest bungalows in Ecuador—or some similar place—where you can run the whole place for pennies per month by comparison.

In the late afternoon, a trip over to Mission Ranch.

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Pastured lamb

Thursday being a bit heavy on food & drink, Friday we opted for just drinks & apps at Hog’s Breath, pretty much my favorite place. My first time there was 1989 and other than Clint Eastwood selling the place to a friend, nothing has changed about it. It even served as the inspiration for my own backyard design for a previous house…a mini forrest with pavers, planters with perennials, an in-ground spa, fire pit and teak furnishings.

Only pic I could find offhand, but the kidney-shaped in-ground spa done in small pebbles is off to the left out of view. The bar is just to the right. :)

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Willow Glen backyard

Here’s what we had for dinner last night.

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Surf & Turf

That wasn’t a restaurant, though. That was the dinner prepared by Robert & Julie for us. Perfect in every way. Robert & I were out there on the patio fighting about whether the steaks were done or not, and that turned out to be the key to having perfectly done steaks.

Thank you, Beatrice. PG12. “Pretty Good 12.”

Filed Under: General Tagged With: california, carmel, gourmet, restaurant

Low Carb Critiquing and Constructive Criticism vs. Slamming and Tearing Down Values

February 21, 2013 30 Comments

First, it serves to take a bird's eye view of the whole thing and in general, my view tells me that the LC community, for all its warts, is a net value and helps a lot of people.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: diet, fat, high fat diet, Jimmy Moore, Mark Sisson, Real Food, vegan, vegetarian, weight loss

Money For Nothin’ and Chicks For Free (Wouldn’t that be nice?)

February 20, 2013 38 Comments

Nobody gets to be a Rock Star, except for Rock Stars—arguably a human creation that will never be equalled in terms of audacity.

Filed Under: General

Deciding For Yourself: 13 Pretty Good Low Carb Resources

February 20, 2013 35 Comments

Keep up and improve the good, best parts of your work, laddies & gentleman. You are a life saving and enhancing value to many out there—doubtless many hundreds and thousands you don't even know about.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: cholesterol, Colin Champ, Danny Albers, diabetes, diet, gluten, Jay Wortman, Jeffry Gerber, Jimmy Moore, LC, low carb, paleo diet, Peter Attia, Real Food, weight loss

Memo to Marlene Zuk: “Paleo Nostalgia” is a Big Fat Strawman

February 19, 2013 32 Comments

...to the extent I'm any authority at all for anyone, it's the valid, necessary authority of telling you that you're OK, that you can figure this stuff out.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: evolution, Hot Pockets, lactase, lactase persistence, Marlene Zuk, Real Food

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