Author Archives: Alice

About Alice

I've milled and baked with whole grains for many years, because whole grains are delicious, and white flour is missing the nutrition that protects you from cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes and many other diseases. Plus it's a good emergency food.

Which Grain Mill Is Best?

Posted on January 8, 2018 by

Coffee & Spice Mills I mention these first because you can buy one for as little as $15 on sale and they’re a good way to find out if you like whole grain, lentil, and bean flour enough to invest … Continue reading →

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Dietary supplements can be spiked with hazardous drugs

Posted on September 30, 2015 by

Jennifer Couzin-Frankel. August 21, 2015. The Supplement sleuth. Some dietary supplements are spiked with drugs. Pieter cohen is out to expose the hazards. Science 349:780-783  Pieter Cohen’s brush with death came at a most inconvenient time: just as he was … Continue reading →

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Video: How To Make Custom Crackers From Your Favorite Ingredients

Posted on June 12, 2015 by

What’s the ultimate cracker?  The one that you make with your own favorite ingredients! In this video, I’ll show you how to invent a cracker from your choice of whole grain, lentil, or nut flours, and favorite spices.   You can … Continue reading →

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Video: DIY whole grain mix for homemade crackers and chips

Posted on February 24, 2014 by

This video shows how to make your own custom whole grain mix, a key ingredient in the cracker and chip recipes in my book, “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers.”   The mix of grains left whole has a one-year … Continue reading →

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Book review of Humboldt Life on America’s marijuana frontier

Posted on February 10, 2014 by

Emily Brady. 2013. Humboldt. Life on America’s marijuana frontier. The tales I hear from my friends in Mendocino and Humboldt counties fascinate me.  There are stories of mayors and sheriffs on opposite sides of the drug war plotting revenge against … Continue reading →

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Video: How to make your own whole grain crackers — Easy, healthy, and delicious

Posted on January 24, 2014 by

This video walks you through the quick, easy steps on how to make your own whole grain crackers.  After you watch the video, you’ll be able to make these crackers yourself.  The unique technique that I demonstrate is from my … Continue reading →

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Topping ideas from Sunset Magazine

Posted on December 3, 2013 by

Better than cheese and crackers (Sunset June 2012) has these recipes: olive and pistachio, beets and preserved lemon, BLT, zucchini and harissa, strawberry mascarpone, and cheese and chocolate, which will work very well on crackers, but wait until you’re within … Continue reading →

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Commercial egg white, hummus, and other chips

Posted on December 3, 2013 by

Bloomberg recently had an article about how a greater variety of chips is available now. Instead of paying 10 times as much to buy them, use these ideas to make your own chips at home. You can use egg whites … Continue reading →

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Book Review of Grain Brain: Extraordinary claim not backed up by evidence

Posted on October 15, 2013 by

A book review by Alice Friedemann of David Perlmutter’s (2013) Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers. Update February 2014: Diabetes is usually triggered by eating too many sugary and high-fat foods that cause … Continue reading →

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Book Reviews: Why I Write Them, How I Find Them

Posted on September 30, 2013 by

I’ve read thousands of mainly non-fiction books over the past 40 years. Why I write Book Reviews I write book reviews for a number of reasons — to give my brain a “workout”, as a source of information for my … Continue reading →

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