Michael Pollan is the "barefoot running" of diet advice. Barefooters argue that running shoes don't prevent injuries, they cause them.   Armed with a growing mound of scientific evidence, barefooting and near-barefooting advocates claim that modern attempts to improve on the design of the human foot—one that natural selection has been working on for millions of…

Ok, I finally got the first version of my "How To Follow Recipes" page up and running.  But are we so real-food-challenged that we need a how-to for recipes?  Aren't recipes already how-to's? When I started cooking, I made a lot of mistakes, even when I tried to follow recipes to the letter.  At the…