by The Omnivorist | Nov 14, 2016 | baby, My Paris
It has been way too long since I was last active on this blog and I really do hope you will forgive me. Last time I wrote, I was getting ready to pop out in a few weeks’ time. In fact, it was exactly one year ago that our lives changed inexorably… not once but twice....
by The Omnivorist | Oct 20, 2015 | baby, Health, pregnancy, Pregnancy & Baby
I had seen the documentary The Business of Being Born when it first came out, meaning long before I had even given much thought to the idea of having children. In it Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein take a critical look at the highly medicalized state of childbirth in the...
by The Omnivorist | May 25, 2015 | baby, Health
I’ve had super dry skin for as long as I can remember. This meant that I used to always seek out the thickest creamiest body cream that I could find, and for years that was heavy-duty Nivea body lotion or other supermarket brands. Until one day when I heard...
by The Omnivorist | Mar 22, 2015 | baby, baby food, Health, Recipes
While milk kefir is a traditional Turkish drink with its roots in the Caucasus Mountains, I had never heard about it growing up — which is quite remarkable if you think about it! As my interest in making my own cultured foods grew, I knew that cultured dairy was a...
by The Omnivorist | Mar 4, 2015 | baby, baby food, Recipes, sweet
If you’ve ever had a toddler, you know what a struggle it can be to get them to eat what you prepare. Even if your cute little baby used to polish off everything in sight with great gusto, sometime after the 18 to 24-month mark, a little devil seems to take...
by The Omnivorist | Feb 20, 2015 | baby, Health, pregnancy, Pregnancy & Baby
What if our nutrition during pregnancy, or heck even before conception, had lifelong consequences for the health of our children? Let me rephrase that in case you have missed the enormity of the statement: what if what the parents ate and how they lived even before...
