By Marilyn Zink
Ever eaten wild greens?
A Wild Greens Festival I attended in my city explored the benefits of wild greens with lots of delicious food samples prepared by chefs from the Vancouver Island University and other chefs in the community.
The food was amazing. There was a wild greens ricotta tart, a nettle soup, a fritter […]
By Marilyn Zink
Most of the time we see parsley when it is used as a garnish on a restaurant meal. And what do we do with it? We throw it away! It seems a shame to throw away such a useful herb.
Parsley is one of the most prolific herbs – it is grown almost everywhere […]
Interested in raw food but not sure how to go about it?
Bestselling author and health expert Kevin Gianni has a new program called the Raw Food Challenge - a 7 day plan to help you detoxify your body, lose weight and get more energy than you’ve felt in years.
I’ve been following Kevin’s work and he’s […]
By Marilyn Zink
Welcome, armchair herb travellers. This is the fourth in a series on Herbs and Spices of the World. In this issue, we travel to the Orient, specifically China and explore some of the herbs it is know for. No culture has more painstakingly documented the healing powers of herb than the Chinese, whose […]
By Marilyn ZinkI was taking a swig of my cholorphyll at a meeting recently when a woman in the opposite row eyed me suspiciously.
“Does it taste like lawn clippings,” she inquired.
“No, it’s actually quite good,” I replied. “It has a fresh, minty flavour.”Green juices like cholorphyll are good for our bodies, because they have a […]