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more meals can be created from nutritious, delicious, and generally much "Long Way on a Little represents the single
less expensive cuts. Further, one must learn to look at each cut of meat greatest learning curve I've climbed in my
in terms of more than one meal that may be made from it. This way of understanding of grassfed meats and how to
cooking allows even a couple or a single person to contemplate a joint of most thoroughly use them," Hayes tells us. Her
beef or neck roast or a whole turkey or duck in terms of many meals. In frankness is winning, and will go a long way
the 1960s Michael Field, one of America's foremost culinary authorities, toward reassuring readers to follow her lead. As
wrote a wonderfully useful book called Culinary Classics and Improvisa- a persuasive writer with first-hand experience
tions whose theme was exactly this. He presented a classic recipe such as in matters of sustainable agriculture, her lively
shoulder of lamb or braised veal followed by six or eight recipes to make discussions on livestock farming in the United
artful use of the leftovers and provide meals for days to come. Truly such States today also inform and educate with clarity
thrift is generosity in disguise. and wit. Perhaps the best part of Hayes' book is
The chapter "Heads, Tails, and Other Under-appreciated Treasures" the fact that by utilizing her approach to mak-
carried Hayes herself into uncharted waters, and she honestly reveals her ing one's diet meat-based and at the same time
initial trepidation in tackling such adventures as "cooking a pig's head or affordable for all, one gains true freedom. As
skewering a chicken's heart." Nevertheless, she proudly reports that now Samuel Johnson once observed, "Frugality may
many of these once-daunting recipes represent some of her family's favorite be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of
foods, and yes, her young daughters dig in with gusto! Temperance, and the parent of Liberty."
Review by Katherine Czapp

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without permission or authorization by the Nigerian government. They around fifty thousand people per year die from
also neglected to mention to the test subjects that they were test subjects the flu. The British Medical Journal blew the
and that this was an unproven drug. Even though eleven children died and cover on that when they analyzed the numbers
dozens were disabled, Pfizer went on to seek FDA approval of the drug and revealed that flu cases are combined with
for use in the United States in 1998 for adults only. Approval was granted, pneumonia cases. In 2007 there were 52,717
and reports of liver failure quickly surfaced in adults, which led to more deaths from pneumonia and flu combined. Of
restrictions but not complete removal of the drug from the market. When that total number only 411 were from the flu. The
Pfizer was sued in Nigeria, their response was to assassinate the character rest were from pneumonia. So the CDC is just
of the attorney general on the case. adding to the confusion.
Dr. Poul Thorsen headed research in Denmark which produced stud- The importance of fat and fat-soluble vi-
ies that claimed to show mercury in vaccines was not harmful. Those tamins is mentioned in the book. The value of
studies were later discredited and found to be deliberately fraudulent, but coconut oil in particular is covered extensively.
pharmaceutical companies continued to use them to defend the presence of Cod liver oil is also recommended but there is
mercury in vaccines. By the way, mercury is still used in some vaccines, no explanation or mention of the importance of
including the flu vaccine. Dr. Paul Offit, a very outspoken proponent of balance and interaction between the fat-soluble
vaccines, claims vaccines have been conclusively proven safe based on vitamins, so I don’t recommend the book as a
these fraudulent studies. He has even made the statement that it is perfectly source of information on that topic specifically.
safe to take close to one hundred thousand vaccines in one day. He was not This book gets a thumbs UP.
joking or exaggerating. Perhaps he should put that to a personal test and Review by Tim Boyd
see how it turns out. Anyone who believes the pharmaceutical industry
about health has failed to escape their cocoon of ignorance. Dr. Andrew Wakefield will be the keynote speaker
The CDC likes to scare people into getting flu shots by telling us that at Wise Traditions 2013. See page 16 for details.
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