Nutrition

Why I’m going to start buying iodized salt

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Image by Bruno /Germany from Pixabay

So, I have a new fave YouTube food and cooking show that features a man named Adam Ragusea who is apparently a Big Deal on the internet. Not all of his videos are in the multiple-millions category, but quite a few of them are, and I’d say that his fame and fortune are richly deserved. I’m featuring his episode on iodine and the decline in use of iodized salt in this post, but let me say that I got acquainted with him via YouTube’s algorithm that has videos pop up on the sidebar according to what you’re watching at the time. I was researching bagel recipes, and he has one, so that one came up. In the course of that video he addressed an issue that bugs me every time I run into it: this idea that you’re supposed to measure your flour by the gram for yeasted-dough baking. That is such nonsense, and there he was, singing my exact same song about that ridiculous idea. But I’ll get to that in another post.

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A Welcome Voice of Reason from the Food/Agricultural World

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I really have no idea how I ran across the blog “The Farmer’s Daughter USA,” but I have to say that I love, love, love Amanda. Here’s why:

Like me, she comes from a farming family. (I’d last about five minutes actually working on a farm, but that’s all by the by. And, as my son points out, my dad left the farm as soon as he could. Still! I treasure the memories of family vacations to southwest Minnesota where there were two big silos on my Uncle Abe’s farm saying “Baerg Dairy” and where I fed chickens and let calves lick my fingers.)

She is a voice of true sanity in our world of food fads.

She’s survived cancer with courage and grace.

Okay. Here’s an old post she sent out recently and which I’d recommend you read (it’s very short). Have you ever felt guilty as you pass by the rather sad-looking fruits and vegetables labeled “organic” in the produce section and thought, ‘Maybe I should buy these, but they’re so expensive and they look so sad’? Well, now you don’t have to!

“I Don’t Spend More for Organic, and You Don’t Have To Either“