Category: Food

The Making of Meltaway Salad

To satisfy time after time, a salad needs to be complex.  Even cows seek out variety, chomping on dandelions, daisies, and other bits of herbal spice to enrich their diet of plain old verdure.  We humans can do so much more, especially if, like me, we live a few steps from the famous Monterey Market, …

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In Praise of CVS

It isn’t every day that an unreconstructed sixties radical gets to say something positive about a megabillion corporation.  But CVS’ s decision to stop selling tobacco products definitely deserves a few words of praise. The rationale — that selling tobacco products contradicts the store’s mission of promoting health — is certainly solid, and the corporation’s …

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Meltaway Salad

This kind of salad — including various root vegetables — has the diversity necessary to give a depth of flavor, and you need that if you’re going to eat it for both lunch and dinner.  With a small side of protein it’s healthy and filling.  I can eat second helpings, and the pounds just melt …

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