I’m Tamara. And I happen to know a thing or two about a thing or two when it comes to food and nutrition, cooking and eating, recipes and healthy living. I’m  a graduate student working toward my master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition and a Registered Dietitian (RD) license; a cake lover cursed with gluten intolerance; and a firm believer that there’s too much incredible real food out there for us to be wasting our precious eating opportunities on things like processed soyburgers, Tasti-D-Lite and other such food-like substances that could remain shelf stable until the next millennium.

I’m on a quest to liberate myself (and those of you who would join me) from the monotony of our current diets…and to help heal the world’s most vexing problems from the comfort of my own kitchen.  Huge public health problems like the obesity epidemic, the incubation of pathogens like MRSA and swine flu in our country’s factory farms, and the widespread contamination of our food supply with the likes of E. Coli and Salmonella won’t be solved through better technology, better drugs or better surgeries.  They WILL be solved with better food produced from a better food system.  And if we want better food, we need to vote for it with our wallets.  By buying healthy, minimally-processed, sustainably-produced foods and using them to cook delicious, homemade meals for ourselves and the people we love, we can truly make the world a healthier place.

To heck with those women’s magazine diet plans that would have us all eating chicken caesar salads every day for the rest of our lives!  Begone, you ubiquitous, shiny “Red Delicious” apples that are bland, mealy, and anything but delicious!   I’m going back to the basics, and I invite you to do so, too: by cooking real food at home, expanding my foodscape, and trying to eat in a way that respects the environment.

I’m on a mission to get you to join me in the kitchen!

Disclosure statement:

The Federal Trade Commission requires bloggers who review and endorse products to disclose any “material connections” they have to such products or the companies that make them.

That’s easy: I have none.

I do not, have never and will never accept payment–in the form of money, free samples, discounts or anything else–from any food manufacturer, retailer or PR agency that represents them in exchange for a product review, endorsement or link. My integrity is worth far more than some edible SWAG, thank you very much.  Neither do I allow outside interests to “ghost blog” on my site.  Rest assured, anything you read here has been researched and written personally by me and reflects my own independently-formed, expert opinions.

If any of this should change at any point in the future, I promise to shout it from the rooftops.

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