Food Rules


Food rules daily life. I spend a quarter of my waking life—or more—dealing with it: planning it, shopping for it, eating it, cleaning up after it.

Food Rules is also the title of Michael Pollan's pocket guide to eating. In it, sixty-four “personal policies” guide one’s food choices around a central tenet: “Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.” I’ll be using this handbook as an initial foundation for this blog, adopting one rule per week to incorporate into my daily life.

Finally, food rules. That is, I like food, so let’s eat!

–Annlee Ellingson
This week’s cookie: Orange-Anise Squares—I couldn’t find (and didn’t want to make) candied orange slices, so I settled for candy orange slices.

This week’s cookie: Orange-Anise Squares—I couldn’t find (and didn’t want to make) candied orange slices, so I settled for candy orange slices.

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What's for dinner: North African Fish Stew →

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This week’s cookie: Carrot Cake Cookies, sans frosting, for Logan’s May Day package.

This week’s cookie: Carrot Cake Cookies, sans frosting, for Logan’s May Day package.

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What's for dinner (belated): Mexican Fish Stew →

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What’s for Easter dinner (belated)

FYI, in Los Angeles, it is possible to pick up your April issue of Food Network Magazineat, say, 8 a.m. Easter morning to plan your menu; shop for all of the groceries you’ll need, including a quarter ham, at Trader Joe’s and the Three Amigos produce market around the corner; and be eating a four-dish meal by lunchtime. Then I took a nap.

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What's for dinner: E.J. and Guy's Pasta →

Logan loved it!

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What's for dinner: Pasta with Lentils & Broccoli Greens →

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This week’s cookie: Easy Whoopie Pies

This week’s cookie: Easy Whoopie Pies

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This week’s cookie (belated): Brown-Betty Buttons, or, as Jeff calls them, Death Stars

This week’s cookie (belated): Brown-Betty Buttons, or, as Jeff calls them, Death Stars

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This week’s cookie: Maple-Walnut Trunks

This week’s cookie: Maple-Walnut Trunks

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