A Place of Brightness: dry red wine

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

A Land Flowing with Milk and ... Wine?

That's the title of a chapter in my book, Original Thin: the Paleo Diet in the Bible and Ancient Literature.

I argue that Paleo purists are wrong in asserting that we should avoid dairy products and alcohol simply because ancient humans didn't enjoy them or couldn't digest them.

I've made a video in which I argue my case:

I do hope that other Paleo enthusiasts can either agree to disagree with me or agree with me on these points. I really don't want to be branded as "that Paleo guy who supports dairy and drinking." But I have to be true to my principles. So, people, be fair to me and at least hear me out.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Paleo Breakfast Ideas

After a heavy Thanksgiving meal, breakfast this morning needed to be light and strictly Paleo.

Scrambled eggs with diced ham, with steamed asparagus spears on the side.

My dry brining attempt from yesterday left the turkey way too salty to enjoy. Then I used the stock from the turkey to make the stuffing and that was too salty as well.

So the good news is I managed to escape Thanksgiving consuming only such carbs as are found in dry red wine.

But having missed out on properly partaking of our National Sacrament, tonight I will give myself the comfort foods of sweet potato fries and a large burger with sauteed onions and mushrooms.

Friday, November 18, 2011

“Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!”

Every year we await the arrival of the Beaujolais Nouveau. It's a mass produced red table wine, but it's a fun tradition wherein we try it and see what foods it goes best with. And you compare notes with other oenophiles and therefore spread the love. Now, since we follow a Paleo lifestyle, I need to defend the fact that we do, in fact, drink red wine daily. The Paleo purists assert that we should not consume anything that our Paleolithic ancestors did not.

I have a whole chapter in my recent book, Original Thin: the Paleo Diet in the Bible and Ancient Literature, in which I argue that Paleo purists are misguided on this particular point.

What it boils down to is that abundant research has proven that the consumption of dry red wine is good for you.

Yes, Neanderthal man never took a sip of the stuff.

But to cut yourself off from something that will not make you fat and can help your health, just because the Troglodytes didn't have the pleasure, is unnecessary. So raise your glass.

Here's to the Paleo Diet! It made me thin again. And here's to dry red wine. It's simply good.

In Saecula Saeculorum, the 4th Novel in the Valquist Series

In this fourth novel of the Valquist Series, Andrew Valquist is retired (?) from the National Security Agency and teaching Latin at a Classical Academy in the Washington DC area. But in the world of espionage, looks can be deceiving. He's not necessarily happy with the role he has played in all this, but the school was actually a joint NSA/MI-6 Project in which four young people have been unwittingly prepared for a mission to travel back in time to ancient Rome to retrieve information from a library that may save the modern world from certain destruction. They know they have to at least try to save humanity, but can they also save each other?

Next Stop: Spanish, the 3rd Novel in the Valquist Series

This third novel in the Valquist Series can be read as an espionage action-adventure in its own right, but also you can use it as a way to either brush up on your Spanish or learn functional Spanish for the first time! John Valquist needs to learn Spanish. But he's in luck, since his uncle Andrew is a language expert and a former (?) spy who is taking him on a vacation to Spain so he can study the language. In Next Stop: Spanish, you have the chance to see and study the words John studies, and then watch him add more and more Spanish into his dialogue as the story progresses. During this vacation, they get pulled into espionage intrigue (why do these things always happen to the Valquist family?). In the dramatic conclusion, John will need to put together everything he has learned to save his uncle!

Amor Vincit Omnia: the 2nd Novel in the Valquist Series

In this second novel of the Valquist Series, Keith Massey takes you into the halls of the National Security Agency, where he himself worked for four years after 9/11 and an Arabic linguist. You follow our hero Andrew Valquist, as he starts work as a new recruit at the NSA. Little does he know that on his first on the job, he's about to fly off on an unexpected overseas assignment. He'll be even more surprised when he learns that his background in ancient Latin will be crucial to the mission!