I recently had the good fortune to do a little guest blogging for Best Self Magazine about my experience at the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival this past weekend. Here’s  a little snippet: One of my favorite things about the 2012 Atlanta Food & Wine Festival is that local and world-renowned chefs give presentations in which you get to learn a little bit about the true art of cooking. Sure, there are recipes that you can recreate at home. There are even techniques to be learned. But there is nothing quite like those “Ah-ha!” moments that you get when you are listening to a...

I just wanted to share a few of the updates videos I’ve taken recently. First up, the aquaponics update: Next, the worms: And finally, the tale of the figs and the ants:

As a Primal Prepper, and a lazy one at that, I want to create things that require work one time and pay me back in health and preparedness over and over again. So here’s another small project that will pay me back for my one hour of effort: Digging a Swale Watering my garden definitely falls into the category of things I don’t want to have to do. By building a swale, I help to ensure that my land is hydrated as much as possible by preventing water from running off my land. Simply put, a swale is a ditch that is level. From the Wikipedia entry on swales: Swales as used in...

Today’s installment of paleo meals is oyster ceviche. I love, love, love oysters, and, as a side benefit, they are very good for you. So I bought a couple pounds of Appalachicola Bay oysters at the market and had the brilliant idea to make ceviche! Of course, since I got new batteries for my Flip, I took a video (or three):    The ingredients of any ceviche are pretty simple: seafood lemon or lime garlic & onion tomatoes (optional) a bit of oil hot peppers cilantro (very important!) The acidic lemon or lime juice does not actually “cook” anything, but it does...

This may be a surprise to a few, but my whole life is not centered on primal prepping. One of my main other interests is business and economics. But sometimes the two areas serendipitously overlap. Today’s case is an article I read over at The Economist. The article is about different groups protesting the new Italian prime minister’s decisions to break down some barriers in certain professions. While I won’t go off on a rant about how asinine all the people involved are, I did want to highlight a few sentences. Truckers are also protesting against an omission from the...

As per Primal Law, I went climbing today at my local gym, Stone Summit (which happens to be the biggest in the country, so ~ ). On one of my last climbs of the day was very long and had several nooks and crannies to get around. Well, long story short, by the time I was at the top, my belay rope was all around me. So when my climbing partner lowered me down, I got rope burn on the back of my arm. And it stings like fire. Naturally I went home and put on some neosporin, but I discovered that I didn’t have any bandages big enough to cover the burned area. Putting on my shirt for work was...

A YouTube user asked where to get the siphon that I use in my gas siphon video. You can get it from Amazon at the Hopkins FloTool 10801 page. It’s a handy tool that keeps all your gas siphoning neat and in the tanks. Just as a note, the Amazon links are affiliate links that pay me a few cents. But it doesn’t change your price either...

You guys may notice the site going through changes recently. I’m experimenting with stuff, so if you have any particular comments or suggestions, let me know!

I’m on the road again today, and I realized another one of the many benefits of living and eating the primal way: the ability to fast intermittently. Fasting is a large topic, which I don’t want to get into right now, but the short version is that predictably going without food for 10-16 hours does a body good. But the flip side of it is that it enables you to go that time without food and not feel any particular discomfort. I was on a Spirit Airlines flight this morning. Their deal is that they provide super cheap fares but cram you in like sardines and charge for everything...