I’ve only worked in one restaurant in my life. it was as a dishwasher at a Mexican restaurant in downtown Vancouver, and at the time I thought it was awesome. I got all the pop and tortilla chips I could eat, the cooks would ‘screw up’ an order now and then and send it my way, and all I had to do was load dirty dishes onto a rack and feed them into the industrial dishwasher. I didn’t deal with [...]
Today we discovered the garden at the local middle school , which is open to the public three days a week. Not only is everything organic, but the deal is that if you pick it yourself, you don’t have to pay for it. Gotta love a price plan like that! We picked up some green beans, cucumbers, and FREE carrots (the kid picked them himself!), which I made into a really easy, herbed stir-fry. When the carrots are this young [...]
Back in May I, along with many other bloggers, wrote about 50 Cent’s dramatic scrawnination for his role as a cancer patient in Things Fall Apart. He dropped 54 lbs in 9 weeks with a liquid diet and daily 3-hour workouts, with an emaciated result as dangerous as my 100 days of starvation. Do not try this at home. The good news is, as fiddy was ahead of me in the extreme weight loss (and better paid for it, I’d [...]
Bottled water. Consumers in industrial countries drink it for ‘taste’ and ‘convenience’. In developing countries, unreliable and unsafe municipal water supplies have driven the growth in consumption. Yet many poorer people who need improved drinking water supplies can’t afford the bottled version. Isn’t that something? Those who need it can’t buy it. Those who don’t need it spend $10 billion a year on buying it in the US alone – where it’s no safer or more pure than tap water. [...]
“…do you have any idea what it’s like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone “Are you married?” and hearing “My wife left me this morning,” or saying, uh, “Do you have children?” and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. You see, Wanda, we’ll all terrified of embarrassment.” ~ John Cleese as Archie Leach History is full of examples of [...]
Yesterday was a pretty good day. Sometimes the roller coaster of weight fluctuations can get to you, but there are ways to deal with them. Rebuilding the muscle that atrophied is chugging along at a so-far-so-good pace. I’m now doing 20 lb. shoulder flys! (That’s where you stand ad, with a dumbell in each hand, flap your arms like a really slow moving bird in a tank top). Nowhere near what I used to do, but it’s a start. While [...]
This is a relatively fast and easy ice cream recipe, although if you use the advanced vegan cream substitute option you’ll really be bumping up against the 5 minute mark. If you hurry. I’m not sold on veganism, but that’s an opinion. My mom is lactose intolerant and for her, cream-free ice cream recipes give her an option to enjoy summer treats with the rest of us. Variety is the spice. This particular recipe is extremely modular; there are several [...]
If you’re reading this long after I wrote it, the title won’t make much sense. But as I type, Angelina Jolie has a movie in theatres called “Salt”. Here’s a mother of six in her late 30′s who is a UN Goodwill Ambassador and a busy actor (the highest paid female actor in the world, currently) who had to bulk up to play a CIA agent whose shining service record is matched only by the gloss on her puffy lips. [...]
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” My step-brother M has been battling serious drug addictions for much of his life… to the point where he has full-body arthritis because of it. The guy can barely bend himself enough to sit down, and getting into a car (as a passenger – he can’t drive) is something that requires careful advanced planning and plenty of time. Recently he and I were visiting [...]
Last weekend, a few friends of ours met my husband and me at the Troy Pigout, an officially-sanctioned KCBA (Kansas City Barbecue Association) festival and competition that’s held in Troy, NY. It’s an opportunity to try out some great barbecue, hear some good live music, and hang out with friends and friends-to-be. We arrived around 2pm, met our friends, and grabbed some barbecue from Big Moe’s M&M Ribs, a barbecue place out of Boston, NY. From what I can gather [...]
“Forgive me, bathroom scale, for I have sinned. It’s been nine days since my last diet…” That’s how it feels sometimes. For the past few days my weight has held at 192 lbs. – 15 lbs heavier than the last day of my self-inflicted starvation. As I wrote a few days ago, much of my insta-gain is water weight. But not all of it. Having spent so many months monitoring my weight every morning on the scale and hoping for [...]
On July 22nd, 2010 The Hungry I founder D’Arcy Mann was interviewed by News Talk Radio host John Gormley for his show “John Gormley Live”, broadcast on News Talk 650 in Saskatoon, SK and News Talk 980 in Regina, SK. Follow the links to the original podcasts, or listen below.
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