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Wanna dive deep into understanding how our family has made the transition to Eat Like a Human?

Take a look at our blog posts (or short dissertations if Bill is the author). From drinking blood and milk in Kenya to Bill’s ears getting destroyed in YouTube comments to making sourdough pasta as a family – everything ties back to the lessons we have learned about learning to eat like a human.

Excited to have you on the journey with us so use the drop down below and look for topics that interest you on your journey to #EatLikeaHuman

First 3 Steps to Transform Your Diet

by Bill

We all know eating the right food is important. But despite this awareness, many of us resist making the first move toward improving our diets. Why? Because when we start to peel back the layers, what we uncover about the modern food system can be downright terrifying. Everything we’ve been told about food, diet, and …

What’s Hiding Beneath the Foam?

by Bill

What’s Hiding Beneath the Foam? Deconstructing the Pumpkin Spice Latte Deconstructing the Pumpkin Spice Latte In October 2003, Starbucks introduced the Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL) to the world. But it wasn’t until 12 years later, in 2015, that they added any actual pumpkin to the recipe. This change coincided with another significant improvement: the replacement …

Limiting Mechanisms: Why Our Senses Fail Us in the Modern Foodscape

by Bill

Limiting Mechanisms: Why Our Senses Fail Us in the Modern Foodscape For millions of years, human senses and urges have evolved through natural selection, primarily to ensure survival and the continuation of our species. Our senses developed with one primary objective: to keep us healthy enough to reproduce, protect, and nourish our offspring until they, …

The Facade of Scratch Made

by Bill

scratch made, hand made, house made, artisan….. These terms used to mean something. They implied connection, quality time spent in the kitchen with a grandmother, and the magic of transforming raw ingredients into a delicious and nourishing meal for the family. Thanks to the marketing machine of the modern industrial food system these terms have …

Can Wine Be a Part of a Healthy Lifestyle?

by Christina

Clearing Customs and Immigration in practically every country we visited to film the Great Human Race was always a hassle. We didn’t travel light. For each shoot the crew lugged scores of huge Pelican cases filled with all sorts of equipment ranging from cameras to drones to audio equipment. Prior to entry, each country recorded …

A Flipped Model and Much Needed Break

by Bill

Christina and I have no business experience whatsoever. None. And, it worked to our advantage. Prior to the Modern Stone Age Kitchen, neither Christina nor I ever owned a business. We never even took a business class in college! If we had, the Modern Stone Age Kitchen probably wouldn’t exist. On the surface, the way …

A Slow Death

by Bill

What is the most dangerous plant? Well, it depends on how you define dangerous. Last week, the Meat Mafia podcast created a couple of reels to advertise the release of their interview with me. In one of them, they spliced a few sound bites of me talking about the dangers of plants like spinach and …

Hunting by yourself

by Bill

I have a confession to make – I didn’t go hunting last year. Not once. And, it will never happen again. Last year was the first time in 43 years that I completely missed an entire hunting season. Even six years ago, when the family lived in Ireland, we managed to get out to snipe …

What we should demand from our restaurants

by Bill

(and what we should expect when we get it) We have set the bar for restaurants in this country far too low for far too long. The modern industrial food system has convinced us that we should focus on things that their misaligned infrastructure can easily provide and, unfortunately, we have been listening. In place …

life support

by Bill

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is not difficult when things in life are going well. But, when stress rears its ugly head it is so incredibly easy to lose focus, succumb to weakness, and find comfort in hedonistic urges. As you know, I am not one for orthorexic approaches. I believe they are too rigid, doomed …

Summertime Drinks – MSAK Style

by Bill

I love lemonade. The ice cold, sour bite complimented by its sweet finish is both refreshing and comforting. Even someone like me who keeps carbohydrate intake at a minimum can make room for this summertime treat. This following description from, Share Lemonade, captures in words exactly how I feel about lemonade: Not to get too …

Familiar Foods Made Nourishing: A Long Term Solution

by Bill

Restrictive diets have their place. They are powerful allies that help us accomplish goals such as losing weight, detoxifying or overcoming a nutrient deficiency. They are fantastic ways to make significant changes in a shorter amount of time than is possible through more moderate approaches. But, restrictive diets are just that, restrictive. Once our goals …

beautiful. insightful. inspirational.

by Bill

Last year our family conducted food research in Sardinia and learned about Su Pan’ispeli’ (detoxified acorn bread), callu di cabrettu (goat stomach cheese) and tratelleria (intensive nose-to-tail goat dish). It took years to set this research up and ultimately was only possible because Sardinian food historian and author, Gisella Rubiu help make contacts and organized …

Variability in Real Food

by Bill

Globalization destroyed our relationship with food by severely lengthening our food chain. We have been distanced from the land, our farmers, our butchers and everyone else in our food system. As a result, we have lost terroir, that sense of place that has been present in every single bite of food our ancestors have taken …

do you have balance and grace in your diet?

by Bill

The most important things missing from our modern diets are not macronutrients, micronutrients, or even probiotics. In fact, they have nothing to do with food at all! Instead, they are crucial elements lacking in our approach to food. They are: balance and grace. We have far too little space for compromise, mistakes, and the human …

Regenerative Restaurant

by Bill

Regenerative Restaurant Two weeks ago, Christina and I attended Force of Nature’s What Good Shall I Do Conference at Roam Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas. The focus of the conference was regenerative farming and we were both struck by the way in which the word regenerative was used in so many contexts beyond simply farming and …

gluten free AND sourdough? What’s the deal with that?

by Bill

Do you really need both? Absolutely… Practically all modern commercially produced breads rely on only one fermentation. This fermentation is a yeast-based fermentation which consumes the available sugars and produces alcohol and carbon dioxide. Bread bakers are not concerned with the alcohol since very little ethanol is produced during the short fermentation process and most …

the latest superfoods list

by Bill

Yet another superfood list just hit on social media, “Top 10 Superfoods for 2024.” If that’s not enough to get you excited, then perhaps the description that followed will be, “This year the following 10 foods were named the most worthy of superfood status, according to hundreds of nutritionists who participated in the ‘What’s Trending …

Own your approach to food. Don’t let it own you.

by Bill

Years ago, while I was recording an introduction for a famous celebrity guest I was interviewing for a summit he rudely interrupted me. I was in the middle of listing his titles and accolades when he blurted out something like, “Stop. I am simply a human being. Let’s get on with the interview.” I was …

Take care of your local businesses . . . please

by Christina

From Christina: As a former public school educator, I used to get so excited for snow days! Pjs backwards. Ice cubes in the toilet. Spoons under the pillows – the whole 9-yards with the kids. But now as a small business owner who employs over 20 people, snow and ice bring sleepless nights. Please stop out this week and support …

Christina’s Side of the Story

by Christina

“I love a good love story” – those were the words that Bob Ortiz uttered when he stopped into my office the other day. At first I wasn’t sure what he was referring to and then I realized it was Bill‘s blog post from last Monday. Many of you resonated with the message of love, …

Building a Restaurant Counterculture – and proud of it!

by Bill

Christina and I recently celebrated an anniversary. January 19, 2024 marked the very day, 26 years ago, I walked into Professor Karras’s history class at the College of New Jersey and laid eyes on Christina for the first time in my life. I remember it like it was yesterday. She was stunning and I was …

The nourishing power of a pot full of bones and water

by Bill

As we closed up the Modern Stone Age Kitchen for the day, Christina asked me if I wanted some bone broth. It turns out there was a mug’s worth left over from the day’s service in the Airpot dispenser she was about to clean and I gladly accepted. As I sipped on the steaming mug …

Connection

by Bill

“It is amazing how we knit this community together in unimaginable ways” That was the WhatsApp message from Galia Kleiman in response to the photo I sent her of Sophia Eng and Sebastian Chagoya cooking together in preparation for our Asian Ancestral Weekend event this past weekend. It reminded me that all of us in …