When did we start expecting cornbread to taste sweet like cake? When did we start adding other flours in addition to corn meal? This recipe makes a rustic, real-deal cornbread that is not sweet.
When did we start expecting cornbread to taste sweet like cake? When did we start adding other flours in addition to corn meal? This recipe makes a rustic, real-deal cornbread that is not sweet.
We love that you are watching Eat Well Be Happy, our cooking show. If your public access TV station isn’t airing, ask them to because you pay for programming with your tax dollars. If you don’t have a TV and want to watch on line, go to: http://actontv.org/on-demand/public. The latest? Eat Well Be Happy is
Digestive enzymes help us digest food, for comfort, and for better nutrient absorption. Not to mention they can help with gas and bloating, reflux, etc.
Made here with full-fat coconut milk so it’s dairy free. I also love this recipe with cow or goat milk.
A shortcut to Indian food. We used canned chickpeas, and a spice packet. You add oil, and your own optional vegetables. Just heat and eat!
We were thrilled to be awarded 2014 Retailer of the Year (Community Engagement) at Natural Product Expo East. A quarter century as your natural market, and now the 2014 Retailer of the Year (Community Engagement) in the US natural products industry. Thank you for walking through our doors.
Mark your calendar – Debra’s Natural Gourmet Turns 25! Birthday Party and Non-GMO FOOD FAIR, Saturday October 18. 10:00-2:00. We will have birthday cake and ice cream, of course, but also a ton of our favorite companies sampling food. Come have a great time and help us celebrate! We’re all grown up! And, as a
The traditional Ethiopian pancake bread uses a sourdough fermented batter, and the gluten-free grain, T’eff. It’s easier than you think!
Can natural medicine make you smarter? Can it help with dementia, like Alzheimer’s? There are mountains and mountains of research out there. And that research is, for the most part, highly nuanced, and still inconclusive.
For those of you who have been asking, we have more Vitamix 7500’s on the way, and you, too, can reserve a black, white or red one at the extraordinary price of $479. Call today so we put your name on your new whirlwind of a machine. This is a great price, and Vitamix has
Are you watching our television cooking show on your public access TV station? Let us know because soon we’re going to launch a chance to win something if you watch us on TV… You can watch on line too. http://actontv.org/on-demand/public
(Eden Foods Puts Their Money Where Their Mouth Is, and Now We Wish They’d Put Their Foot Where Their Mouth Is, But We Still Will Not Boycott Eden Foods) In our industry, there’s a very, very short list of companies that have stood the test of time, managing to grow large and successful without compromising
Eat Well Be Happy, our great new cooking show on Public Access TV is airing happily in many towns. Now in Concord (showing Monday at 5:00, Wednesday at 9:00, Thursday at 2:00 and Saturday at 4:00), Littleton (showing Tuesday at 12:30, Thursday at 5:30, Saturday and Sunday at 7:00), Lexington (showing Monday at 1:30, Wednesday
A bit of fresh pear or mango adds natural sweetness to this cooling summer soup. Avocado adds richness. This is really a salad — masquerading as a soup.
No longer “the disease of kings,” this painful affliction can strike any of us. Natural medicine to both prevent and address gout symptoms.
“Combining tomatoes and watermelon seems to be all the rage today. Typically such recipes call for adding feta cheese too, but I skip that because I think the feta makes the salad look messy.”
Did you know that flower growers have used molasses to feed the blooms for decades in order to get stronger and longer lasting blossoms? Molasses supplies trace minerals along with bio-available sugars to feed the plant immediately.
This just in from the Boston Business Journal: Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Science got a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to run a five-year project to build RoboBees. Yep, fake bees to pollinate… Why?
Cordyceps mushroom is a rare, high-altitude medicinal treasure to maintain endurance and lung function. Creatine is a dietary supplement to increase muscular force.
This is an easy one — but your guests won’t know. Just soak the chia, chop the fruit, and layer in a nice glass.
Also known as Sabich in throughout the middle east, this combo of baked (or fried) eggplant, eggs, vegetables, and hummous is a winner every time.
Thank you to everyone who shopped the day before Mother’s Day, a benefit day for Vitamin Angels. We were able to send Vitamin Angels a check that allowed them to reach an additional 5,000 children with the essential nutrients they need to grow strong and healthy. Vitamin Angels recently visited beneficiaries in Honduras and found
Painful heartburn is an occasional pitfall for enthusiastic eaters. Or an everyday fact of life for others. Either way, natural medicine can put out the fire.
Rooibos Tea Rooibos tea is red tea from South Africa, and we’ve carried it since 2001. We love all our organic rooibos teas (we have bulk red tea and red tea in tea bags; we have some red tea in tea bags in combination with other plants and herbs too). One tea box says, “Since
We’ve got shows in the can. Local friend, Nancy Kaplan, has played the music for our theme song. My brother, David Stark, has done some fun graphics, and we’re shooting four more cooking shows at the beginning of May. Not long now until our cooking show will air. What’s the show called? Eat Well, Be
Many of you, our customers, are fabulous cooks. How do we know? Well, over the years, we’ve all exchanged recipes and cooking ideas and they’ve been great. So, to celebrate warmer weather, we’re holding a cooking contest!
Allergies are the result of a healthy, robust immune response — at the wrong time. You attack pollen or animal dander like it’s a dangerous invader. Sneezing and hives ensue…
all the colors of redness: ruby, crimson, scarlet, and coral.
Dushenka Ani Silverfarb is cookbook author The Model Vegan, and a favorite customer. This is her creamy almond milk recipe.
Cultured veggies are sort of like pickled veggies, except better and more delicious. Instead of preserving vegetables by pickling them in vinegar, culturing involves live healthy bacteria – sort of like the bacteria that turn milk into yogurt.
We sell cleanse kits where you take the herbs, follow some simple instruction, and can keep eating pizza. This one, though, isn’t just a cleanse, but a reset for the entire diet. AND — you won’t be hungry.
Dukkah comes from the Arabic word for “to pound.” Traditionally made from pounded sesame seeds, salt, and savory spices, we make ours in the food processor.
We had a great run with Benbow’s Coffee Roasters out of Maine. And we’re still going to keep many of the old flavors in bags for you die-hard fans. But we’re switching to Dean’s for our bulk bins because: Dean’s supports Fair Trade and social justice like nobody’s business Dean himself gave an awesome speech
The foods will be different, but they’ll taste the same. Sound too good to be true? Read on…
I found this simple recipe for koji (Japanese gruel) in my files at home and it reminded me that sometimes the simplest foods are what do a body good. That the old time remedies really work. They not only soothe, they make us well. Their very simplicity is in itself calming and healing.
Sweet potatoes, black beans, kale, warming spices, and sausage add up to a deeply comforting (but not too caloric) winter meal. Avocado and lime round it out.
Magnesium stearate is a natural additive in most tablets and capsules on the market today. Some people claim it is toxic…