September 2009

Choosing Foods Depending On Where You’re Eating

September 23, 2009 Food choice reasons

Sometimes you can be really picky and only eat certain foods that exactly meet your needs. Other times you might be willing to be less stringent in order to avoid going hungry, or to avoid spending an excessive amount of time checking every single detail about your food source. There are people who will follow […]

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Foods Contaminating Other Foods

September 12, 2009 Food choice reasons

For someone with an allergy, avoiding a tiny piece of food may be a matter of life or death. If your cookie has a small piece of peanut in it from the previous batch, and you’re allergic to peanuts, it could cause anaphylactic shock and potentially death. It’s really obvious why some people should avoid […]

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Timing — When to Eat Foods

September 6, 2009 Food choice reasons

Some people will only eat certain types of food at certain times of the day; others will wait a prescribed amount of time between eating one type of food and another; and some people will eat or avoid foods on particular days of the week, times of the year, or holidays, or their eating habits […]

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Food Combinations

September 1, 2009 Food choice reasons

We might make food combination choices for reasons of health, or beliefs, or taste. In the Middle Ages in Western Europe, it was normal to put fruits and sweet spices into meat dishes. This is still true in some North African and Chinese cuisines, but doesn’t happen so often any more in Western cuisines. We may […]

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