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As you know, I’ve been reading (and chomping while reading) French Women Don’t get Fat which is a relatively snobby little book about how to enjoy food.

Formerly a foodie, I do long for the days when I ate for the sake of pure pleasure and I ate healthy.  I also weighed a lot less, took long walks in the woods, and, well, enjoyed my food and enjoyed learning about were it came from.  I could also cook.  I mean truly cook.  Ask anyone who had been visitor to my kitchen.
Oh the bliss.

Well, in this post kitchen-trauma, vacation era, I can feel that foodie inside of me being called by her insatiable muse.

Not so much because of the French Woman… (I would recommend Michael Pollen’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma if you really want to get into it), but because of the twists and turns that life is taking and the surprises that present themselves to me.

I have come to a place where I am less than enchanted with what I put in my mouth and come to a crossroads where I feel that I need to make some serious changes in terms of my weight, my health.  I don’t know how I fell off this savory wagon, but I’ve just been sustaining, for awhile.  And it has taken its toll.

One of the nice little surprises is the discovery of a sweet, delicious little blog that I friend of mine has started about food and health and life and mothering.  It’s called “Nina” and it is listed in my blogroll.

I love Carrie’s discussion about what feeds us rather than what sustains us on autopilot, especially when caring for another.
She also has some great recipes too.

So, a toast, to Nina, to good food, to really feeding ourselves and our souls and to using the summer to jumpstart (or restart) a love for good food and good health!

I’m psyched.

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