A very interesting show this week with my guest Andrew Wilder! Andrew is the brains and motivation behind what is rapidly becoming very popular annual October event and generating a lot of buzz. It’s “October Unprocessed 2013! It all started in 2009 when Andrew asked the question ” What would happen if I went for an entire month without eating processed foods?”
If this idea interests you, then do it today, it’s not too late. If you do a month, a week or even a day, it might just change your life. Visit Andrews blog www.eatingrules.com and follow him on Face Book to learn more and get involved. You have nothing to lose but weight, unhealthy eating habits and more!
The “Kitchen Test” Definition
The first question I’m always asked is, “How do you define processed?” Obviously there’s a wide range of implications in that word, and we will probably each define it slightly differently for ourselves. My definition is this:
Unprocessed food is any food that could be made by a person with reasonable skill in a home kitchen with whole-food ingredients. I call it “The Kitchen Test.” If you pick up something with a label (if it doesn’t have a label, it’s probably unprocessed), and find an ngredient you’d never use in your kitchen and couldn’t possibly make yourself from the whole form, it’s processed.
It doesn’t mean you actually have to make it yourself, it just means that for it to be considered “unprocessed” that you could, in theory, do so.
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2010 Bodegas Alto Moncayo “Veraton”
This inky red is 100% Grenache, and it offers a heady bouquet evokes ripe red berries, anise, mocha and pungent fresh flowers. Supple and sweet on entry, then more structured in the middle, offering deep, mineral-accented dried strawberry and cherry liqueur flavors. It takes a spicy turn on the long, sappy finish, which echoes the pure red berry qualities. The 2010 bottling has not yet been professionally reviewed, but the 2009 vintage garnered 91 and 92 points from Wine Spectator and Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, respectively.
Good Life guy loves this wine, it’s not bargain basement, Alto Moncayo has a less expensive Garnacha base wine and one more expensive. This wine over delivers and is worth every penny.
