Posted on 01/08/2016 1:28:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
For years, Maira Perez thought to be healthy she had to eat salad -- and certainly not the food her grandparents and parents grew up eating in Mexico.
Even her doctor once suggested she "slow down on the tortillas," she recalls, as they discussed managing her weight. After a string of short-lived and frustrating diets, the CSU East Bay student found the inspiration she needed in professor Luz Calvo's ethnic studies course, which gave her a new, healthier take on traditional Mexican food, inspiring her to cook "the tamales, the beans, the fresh tortillas, nopales -- the things we thought of as unhealthy."
"It's something that changed my life," Perez, 23, said of the class, "as a student, as a mother, as a person."
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That is a cross between Ross Perot and Glen Beck.
Yikes!
If you really "decolonize" yourself you will have to wear a colostomy bag on your side for the rest of your life and somebody will have to clean it out.
Then don’t eat chicken, beef, or pork. All these were brought over by the evil Europeans. Instead of trying to make this a cultural or anthropological issue, try instead of just saying eat natural and not processed.
And remember the Glockamole properly in its holster.
That was my first laugh of the day - thanks!
I was thinking Margaret Hamilton with a butch lesbian twist.
Luz Calvo cooks corn tortillas in her kitchen on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 in Oakland, Calif. After a breast cancer diagnosis, Calvo, an ethnic studies professor at Cal State East Bay looked at wholesome foods, like corn tortillas, beans and vegetarian soups to eat during her recovery from cancer treatments. Calvo’s research led to a class on health and food history at CSU East Bay. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) ( ARIC CRABB )
She does not look healthy.
LOL, you win for correctness and the reference. :)
All of what you say is true, but besides the Nopales, have you ever tried the cactus pears?
Well,that’s one way to do it... just give up on eating heathy and say it is a cultural choice to chow down on the refried beans and tortillas.
“The are 15 causes of Kyphosis listed below. Only one is bad posture.”
“ ...because it is usually caused by poor posture.”
LOL. Well, you basically killed your entire argument right there when you admit it is usually just bad posture.
Great. Now healthy food is racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and patriarchical. #beanfartsmatter
Thanks for the Info...usually I’m thinking and observing guys at gym who lift weights but walk with humped shoulders
So they’ve politicized food too?
Watermelon. Ham sandwiches. Tacos. Fried chicken.
Why ham sandwich?
Kyphosis in diesel dyke lesbians is known as Clam Diggers Hump, although it is known regionally in South Park CO as Scissoring Hump.
Peyote is good for so many things!! :-)
OMG I love those prickly cactus pears. However, I can handle its seeds. LOL There is an empty lot nearby where there are cactus and sometime in the Summer it bears it fruits. I will go over and grab some, just love eating them but I hate swallowing the seeds so I spit it out. I’m thinking perhaps maybe juicing it and remove the seeds thru a strainer.
I LOVE biscuits and gravy; learned how to make it from an ol’ southern lady at a place I used to work (and for a California boy I can make it *GOOD*)but the whole damn point of that dish, like re-fried beans and many dishes from many cultures is to put as many calories on the plate as possible, making use of ingredients that poor (excuse me, economically disadvantaged) folks have access to.
A lot of ‘gourmet’ dishes are really what poor folks scraped together to survive, figuring out how to make “meat” that had been dead a bit too long taste good, later adapted to having access to good ingredients. Nearly any damn fool can cook a steak, but to create a tasty dish packed with survival (calories) from ingredients that those with other options would be repulsed by, THAT'S where great food comes from.
I keep lard and pinto beans as part of my survival stash. That, some water and basic spices and I can put 3000 calories of survival on my plate without needing to refrigerate anything and do it cheap.
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