food

don’t like mushy
okay, so maybe these are really just oats. perfect breakfast oats. best way to start my day. besides bacon and eggs, of course. i eat a lot more of these, though.
so yes…i don’t like those mushy things that i loved as a child. minute oats all gooey and full of brown sugar and [...]

put up or shut up!
yesterday i asked you about your passion…what’s that thing that you will do regardless of how much time, money or freedom you have or don’t have. well of course i’ve been challenged to put some more words where my words are…or something like that…and so i’ll be taking some time all [...]

hopping what?
okay. this is going to be quick and dirty. hopping john is a dish of black eyed peas cooked with ham hock or salt pork or some other cheap and flavorful pig product, mixed with butter and rice, and traditionally eaten on new years day for good luck. rowan loves it, though maybe just [...]

or something like that
back in the day, working at a record store while walking one foot in front of the other down the cul de sac of a degree in english, which would qualify me for more years working at record stores, i had occasion to read the adventures of fat freddy’s cat, one of [...]

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Oh most humble and sometimes pressed for time non-doc;
I know you are spending the week studying with your main yogi John Friend, so I thought I would ask you a simple question: how the heck am I supposed to get enough greens into my diet? I [...]

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Last week I began looking at a question from Massachusetts Sugar Fiend, who claimed to be “plagued by the desire to eat sweets; breakfast, lunch and dinner, morning, noon and night”, and wanted to know “what foods are good alternatives to satisfy my sugar craving?” We [...]

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
 
Charles,
I am finding myself plagued by the desire to eat sweets; breakfast, lunch and dinner, morning, noon and night. What foods are good alternatives to satisfy my sugar craving?
Massachusetts Sugar Fiend
Dear Sugar Fiend,
Thanks for asking me one of my very favorite questions! And pardon me if [...]

I Ain’t No Doctor
a weekly health column by charles faris, hhc
Dear Chas,
I’m afraid of conventional food, yet i don’t have the scratch necessary to buy all organic. What can i do? Eating is becoming very difficult for me.
—Chicken Little
Dear Chicken,
Thanks for your question, which in one variation or another is on many a mind these [...]

so it all started with a jar of nuts. raw cashews. love ‘em. too much maybe. leaned on ‘em when times were tough and now they always seem to be answer numero uno. as in:
i’m feeling a little hungry (grab that jar of nuts!)
i’m bored  (grab those nuts!)
oh, look at that pile of important papers [...]