Last Friday Night Dinner Practice and Food For Our Bones
Monday, December 18
So the end is near or in sight with the last Friday Night Dinner practice this morning before our January 5 dinner for 100 people, which we hear is nearly sold out. We tried our concept of a tasting plate of Indian and Japanese samples and it went well. On our bamboo type leaf on the plate will be samples of Indian food (curried vegetables and a mango chutney) and Japanese food (chestnut and burdock sweet rice layered with forbidden rice, which is black and I'm not sure why it's called this besides the colour, and skewers of portabello mushrooms and other vegetables grilled with a teriyaki orange sauce). So far so good.
In the afternoon, we had an interesting lecture by the founder of the school, Annemarie Colbin, on medicinal cooking, focusing on osteoporosis arthritis, neurological disorders, and food and the mind.
Osteoporosis can be defined as porous bones and the problem is factures caused by lack of exercise, and too much toxins such as caffeine, sodium, drugs, etc. Low calcium intake only causes 13% of the problems and there is a misperception that milk is the only and a good source for calcium. In several studies, one with 70,000 women,in fact milk was determined not to help prevent osteoporosis in women. The best place for calcium is where the cows and horses get it and it's from leafy greans and Vitamin D from food products such as shitake mushrooms and the sun. Calcium supplements can be dangerous if you don't know where the excess calcium is going.
How to make bones strong?
1. Vegetables, except nightshade vegetables should be limited if you have problems with your bones or aches and pains caused by your bones. Nightshades are tomatos, peppers, eggplant, etc and several other vegetables.
2. Protein from beans, animal food and other sources
3. Whole grains
4. Nuts and seeds
5. Good quality fats. Low fat diets are a bad idea for osteoporosis
6. Cooking with stock. Grains in stock make the stock more alkaline. Kombu or agar added to stock. How to get the calcium from the bones in the stock? 1 T of vinegar or a 1/2 cup of wine for every 8 cups of liquid will help drain the calcium from the bones. Also edible bones are good such as eating smelts, sardines, etc. Sea vegetables are also an excellent source of calcium.
A good book to learn more about our bones is called "Food and our Bones: The Natural Way to Prevent Osteoporosis" that AnneMarie Colbin wrote.
I have to head to class but will write more later on this and other topics discussed during the lecture... fascinating stuff...
So the end is near or in sight with the last Friday Night Dinner practice this morning before our January 5 dinner for 100 people, which we hear is nearly sold out. We tried our concept of a tasting plate of Indian and Japanese samples and it went well. On our bamboo type leaf on the plate will be samples of Indian food (curried vegetables and a mango chutney) and Japanese food (chestnut and burdock sweet rice layered with forbidden rice, which is black and I'm not sure why it's called this besides the colour, and skewers of portabello mushrooms and other vegetables grilled with a teriyaki orange sauce). So far so good.
In the afternoon, we had an interesting lecture by the founder of the school, Annemarie Colbin, on medicinal cooking, focusing on osteoporosis arthritis, neurological disorders, and food and the mind.
Osteoporosis can be defined as porous bones and the problem is factures caused by lack of exercise, and too much toxins such as caffeine, sodium, drugs, etc. Low calcium intake only causes 13% of the problems and there is a misperception that milk is the only and a good source for calcium. In several studies, one with 70,000 women,in fact milk was determined not to help prevent osteoporosis in women. The best place for calcium is where the cows and horses get it and it's from leafy greans and Vitamin D from food products such as shitake mushrooms and the sun. Calcium supplements can be dangerous if you don't know where the excess calcium is going.
How to make bones strong?
1. Vegetables, except nightshade vegetables should be limited if you have problems with your bones or aches and pains caused by your bones. Nightshades are tomatos, peppers, eggplant, etc and several other vegetables.
2. Protein from beans, animal food and other sources
3. Whole grains
4. Nuts and seeds
5. Good quality fats. Low fat diets are a bad idea for osteoporosis
6. Cooking with stock. Grains in stock make the stock more alkaline. Kombu or agar added to stock. How to get the calcium from the bones in the stock? 1 T of vinegar or a 1/2 cup of wine for every 8 cups of liquid will help drain the calcium from the bones. Also edible bones are good such as eating smelts, sardines, etc. Sea vegetables are also an excellent source of calcium.
A good book to learn more about our bones is called "Food and our Bones: The Natural Way to Prevent Osteoporosis" that AnneMarie Colbin wrote.
I have to head to class but will write more later on this and other topics discussed during the lecture... fascinating stuff...
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