Wednesday, October 21, 2009 –
You may have noticed that we’ve added several new granola and trail mix blends to our menu. You guys said you loved eat-from-the-bag blends, and we listened. The next couple blog posts we’ll tell you a little bit more about the history of this delicious school of cereals and how you might best enjoy yours. [...]
Monday, September 14, 2009 –
A few years ago none of us had even heard of Goji berries… and now they’re everywhere! (Including, if you like, in your Mojamix.) But why? What exactly is the big deal about these little, wrinkly, red bits? First, a bit of history. Goji berries grow on an evergreen shrub found in temperate and subtropical [...]
Thursday, September 10, 2009 –
Quinoa (Keen-wah!) has been an important human food for an incredibly long 6,000 years. The Incas considered quinoa to be sacred. They called it “chisaya mama,” or “mother of all grains.” The emperor would traditionally sow the first seeds of the season with tools made of gold. Compared to other grains, quinoa is higher in [...]
Theobroma Food of the Gods CHOCOLATE It’s an ancient food with a powerful history. The ancient peoples of Mexico discovered the wonders of chocolate. For the Mayan, only nobles and warriors were allowed to have chocolate. The Aztec offered chocolate to their god, Quetzalcoatl. They drank their chocolate hot and spicy, and sometimes mixed [...]
We’ve recently added a new ingredient to our menu, and we’d like to take this occasion to celebrate it: let’s hear it for the all-American pecan! Native to this land, the buttery-rich pecan takes its name from the Algonquin word pakan, which means “a nut so hard it has to be cracked with a stone”. [...]
Did you know that cinnamon (from the Greek kinnamomon) is actually the ground-up bark of a tree? The history of cinnamon, which is native to Sri Lanka, is rich and long. The first mention of the spice come from China, circa 2800 BCE. In antiquity, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote of a mythical Cinnamon [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009 –
Since ancient times, we have been fascinated with the ideas of our human uniqueness. Greek, Chinese, and Ayurvedic traditions all prescribed highly individualized diets, based on detailed observations of a particular person. Why? Because just as no two people have identical fingerprints, neither do they have identical nutritional needs. Roger Williams, Ph.D., an internationally [...]
