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Tasting, Traveling, USA Travel

A Culinary Round-up of Charlottesville

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A Culinary Round-up of Charlottesville

Know where to eat on your next trip to the beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia.

Recipes, Tasting, Traveling, Trips Outdoors

3 Meals to up your Glamping Game

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3 Meals to up your Glamping Game

Curious how to shop for your next car camping trip? Here's a sample shopping list and three simple easy gourmet meals to take your camping trip to the next level. Added bonus: everything tastes better when cooked outside. Note: it's recommended that you actually get outside and go for a hike, rather than sit around and drink all day. Please try to clean up and leave no trace.

Recipes, Tasting

Hearty Healthy Chicken Fajitas

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Hearty Healthy Chicken Fajitas

  My roommate and I like to feed people.  Maybe it's my jewish side and my time in Italy coming out, and well my roommate is half jewish half Italian, so you get the point. Mangia! I  understand that for some, it can come as a challenge feeding a crowd.  To those who can only [...]

Recipes, Tasting

Moroccan Eggplant Zaalouk

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My Dear Readers, I have something very special for you.  I will share my top secret dinner party weapon, my go to dish to impress, my prize moroccan eggplant zaalouk recipe.   This is the dish, second only to maybe my risotto, that I get asked about most often.  It's unique, flavorful, and most important, [...]

Nutrition & Dietetics

Veg Vag: Your Diet and Your Sex Drive

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Veg Vag: Your Diet and Your Sex Drive

What is the link between diet and libido? This is the question that was posed by two friends of mine on a recent road trip to Tahoe.  Well, to be fair, the question wasn't exactly presented in those terms.  My friend turned to me and said, "You'd be so proud of me.   I feel incredible, [...]

Traveling, Trips Outdoors, Type 1 diabetes

A Beginners Guide to Backpacking with Type 1 Diabetes

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A Beginners Guide to Backpacking with Type 1 Diabetes

Note: An Updated version of this post can be found here I grew up assuming that backpacking was not an option for me.  Backpacking along with scuba diving was looped into the "too dangerous for diabetics" category in my head. A category, which I've only recently realized is completely ludicrous. Unlike scuba diving, no one [...]

Nutrition & Dietetics, Type 1 diabetes

Building a Healthy Relationship with Food and Your Body

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Building a Healthy Relationship with Food and Your Body

You've just finished a huge Thanksgiving meal. Some of you are stuffed to nauseous status, others are stuffed to guilty status. Now I'm going to speak to the guilty feeling folks right now:  Stop feeling guilty.  Accept it for what it is. If you're feeling extremely full, go on a family walk, or just pass [...]

International Travel, Traveling

A Quick Trip to Tunisia République Tunisienne ØªÙˆÙ†Ø³

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A collection of photos from my trip to Tunisia in 2013.       République Tunisienne الجمهورية التونسية, a set on Flickr.

Tasting, Traveling

Tuna-isia with a dollop of Mayo

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Tuna-isia with a dollop of Mayo, a set on Flickr. Over a fine dinner of orange glazed salmon and saffron quinoa, my friend Jessica mentioned something very profound about my traveling choices. She said, "Most people choose their destinations by the sites they want to see or the resorts they want to stay in, but [...]