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I’ve always rejected the tendency to talk about Southern food as unhealthy. Greens, beans, corn, and even freshly slaughtered meat, the mainstays of our foodways, are, relative to the standard American diet, quite healthy. Our nutritional deprivation these days is more than anything a consequence of fast food, mass production, and poverty. But I th

The Bulletproof approach is all about using a precise understanding of food chemistry so that we can prepare food that delivers maximum nutrition and minimum inflammation, and tastes great too.

There are a lot of ways to make demi-glace, but I recommend you simply take your already reduced meat stock, add some red wine, toss in some shallots and fresh thyme and a bay leaf and peppercorns, and slowly, slowly simmer it and reduce it again until it coats a spoon.

A.J. Jacobs’s Esquire piece titled “I Think You’re Fat.”