From the Editor:
Local Resources Around Eugene
At our December potluck the topic of where to find certain food items came up, and people shared some good suggestions. I don’t remember many of them anymore (this is why I need a volunteer to take notes at the meetings), but I would like to start a local sources list.
In addition to the Lane County Farmers’ Market, local farms, and our wonderful selection of natural food stores in Eugene, below are a few local stores that I have found to be particularly useful for finding specific foods.
Grass-fed beef, organ meats and bones:
Long’s Meat Market
81 E. 28th Ave.
Eugene, OR
phone: (541) 344-3172
email: info@longsmeatmarket.com
www.longsmeatmarket.com
Local beef, organ meats, dog food and bones: (pasture & grain-fed – no feed-lots)
Bright Oaks Meats
660 Main Street
Springfield, OR
phone: (541) 726-6913
Grass-fed beef, pasture-raised pork and poultry:
Deck Family Farm
25362 High Pass Rd.
Junction City, OR 97448
phone: 541/998-4697
email: info@deckfamilyfarm.com
www.deckfamilyfarm.com
Wild-caught fish, seafood and fish roe:
Fisherman’s Market
830 W 7th Ave.
Eugene, OR
phone: (541) 484-2722
www.plankfish.com
Carp roe caviar: (without dyes or preservatives)
Pomegranates Catering & Classes
2833 Willamette Street
Eugene, OR 97405
phone: (541) 242-0705
www.pomegranatesmmg.com
Update: I just learned that Pomegranates retail location is no longer open.
Pomegranates is now focusing on catering and classes.
New phone: (541) 543-4121.
Email: pomegranates@comcast.net
(Darn! I am almost out of my caviar!)
Raw nuts and coconut oil:
Hummingbird Wholesale
254 Lincoln S.
Eugene, OR
phone: (541) 686- 0921
fax: (541) 686-6168
www.hummingbirdwholesale.com
Coconut oil, organic herbs
Mountain Rose Herbs
Pleasant Hill, OR
phone: (800) 879-3337
www.mountainroseherbs.com
(For local pick-up – place order by phone, then give 24 hours before pick-up.)
This is just the beginning of a list to get you thinking about it, so please send me your suggestions.
In December, I also received my “Shopping Guide 2009” from The Weston A. Price Foundation. WAPF sends out this little booklet to all members each year. It provides “recommended brand names and helps you make wise decisions in the grocery store.”
If you know of local sources for items listed in this booklet, or other products that should be listed in it, please send them to me. I am really disappointed that the little Russian market in West Eugene closed, because I have not been able to find another local store that carries smoked cod liver. Believe it or not, it was really tasty!
~ Lisa
January Events:
Meeting & Potluck Dinner
Monday, January 12, 2008
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Location:
At the home of Ellen Singer
1025 Elkay Dr., Eugene
Directions: From the north:
Take River Road exit from Beltline left/south onto River Road. Go about a mile and a half, pass traffic lights at Horn Lane and Hilliard. Turn right onto Elkay Drive, just in front of “River Road Medical Group”.
From the south:
Take Chambers Street north until it turns into River Road. Turn left onto Elkay Drive (you’ll see River Rd. Medical Group on the left).
Once on Elkay Drive:
1025 Elkay Drive is about 1/2 mile from River Road. Look for the big wooden fence with big black wrought iron gate. Park parallel to the fence in the grassy area outside the gate, not in the driveway. Come in through the gate (which may be hard to open), up the brick steps (watch out, they can be slippery when wet).
Phone: Ellen’s number is 689-3968
Bring a Dish
Please bring a Nourishing Traditions style dish and join us for some great food and great conversation! Families and guests are welcome. Please bring enough food to feed the size of your party, and your recipe on a 3×5 card or notepaper (we are collecting these and will eventually compile a recipe book).
RSVP:
We appreciate an RSVP (info@krautpounder.com) if you think you will be attending so that we have a rough idea of how many people to expect, but feel free to just show up.
Monthly Potluck/Meetings:
Our potluck meetings are regularly scheduled on the second Monday of each month.
Host a Potluck:
We also need a volunteer to host the potluck on February 9th. Let us know if you would like to host an upcoming potluck.
New to all of this?
For those of you who are new to The Weston A. Price Foundation principals please see the Dietary Guidelines and Characteristics of Traditional Diets for a brief overview, and then get a copy of the book Nourishing Traditions for in-depth information and recipes.
“The Popcorn Review”
“Immunity, Vaccinations and Infectious Disease in Children”
by Phillip Incao, MD
Friday, January 23, 2008
7:30 to 9:00 PM
Location:
Market of Choice
67 West 29th, Eugene
Upstairs in the Community Room
This was scheduled for December, but it was cancelled due to weather conditions. We are offering it again this month.
Dr. Philip Incao has had an active general practice of anthroposophic medicine since 1973, mostly in rural upstate New York, more recently in Denver, Colorado. He was featured in the July-August, 2003 Mothering magazine article, “The Healing Crisis: Don’t Worry Mom-I’m Just Growing!”
Dr. Incao’s special interest is strengthening the health of children against the increasing spirit-weakening influences of modern life, especially in education and healthcare. He lectures in Waldorf communities nationwide on the practical applications of a spiritual yet scientific understanding of the human being to healing and to education. He is also a member of the advisory boards of Alive and Well AIDS Information Network in Los Angeles, the National Vaccine Information Center in Virginia, and the Foundation for Health Choice in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Incao writes a regular medical column “The Doctor Speaks” for the quarterly magazine of healthy living, Lilipoh.
Three of Dr. Incao’s essays on children’s health are included in the book The Vaccination Dilemma, edited by Christine Murphy and published by Lantern Books, also available from Steiner Books. He is also the father of three grown sons.
Articles by Philip Incao, MD:
We are requesting a $5-10 donation to the Eugene Chapter at the door.
Space is limited, so please contact us to reserve your seat.
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Library Books
At the Eugene Public Library
A local member and I were discussing the book Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Natasha Campbell-McBride, and the idea of a Eugene Chapter lending library. At present we do not have the resources to make this happen, but we do have a wonderful local resource, the Eugene Public Library. So I decided to compare the Thumbs Up Reviews on the Weston A. Price website, with the books available locally at the Eugene Public Library.
The most glaring omission in the library’s collection is the classic book (written by the name-sake of our organization): Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS.
The library welcomes suggestions, and has made several book purchases after my requests, so please take a moment to suggest a purchase for one or more of these items. You do not need to have a library card. You may Suggest a Purchase online, or fill out a request in person at the library.
The library will also make inter-library loans on your behalf. For example I read Pottenger’s Cats: A Study in Nutrition this way.
Not Available at the Eugene Public Library:
These books and videos are not currently available at the Eugene Public Library. Read reviews at Thumbs Up Reviews, and then Suggest a Purchase to the library.
- Cancer Cause and Cure
by Percy Weston
- Diet Cure, The
by Julia Ross, MA
(formerly available, now lost)
- Dying to Look Good
by Christine Hoza Farlow, DC
- Farms of Tomorrow Revisited
by Trauger Groh and Steven McFadden
- Fiber Menace
By Konstantin Monastyrsky
- Fish We Eat, The
Anore Jones
Available online at http://alaska.fws.gov/asm/fisreportdetail.cfm?fisrep=21.
(Click on Northwest Arctic and then on Iqaliuch Niginaqtuat, Fish That We Eat.)
- Food Enzymes for Health and Longevity
by Edward Howell, MD
- Gut and Psychology Syndrome, The
by Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD
- Grassfed Gourmet, The
by Shannon Hayes
- High Blood Pressure Hoax, The
by Sherry A. Rogers, MD
- Keeping a Family Cow
by Joann S. Grohman
- A Life Unburdened: Getting Over Weight and Getting On with My Life
by Richard Morris
- Milk Book, The
by William Campbell Douglass, MD
- Milk, Money, and Madness
by Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH and Dia L. Michels
- No-Grain Diet, The
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
- Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
by Weston A. Price, DDS
- Nutrition in Biblical Times
by Ruth F. Rosevear
- Recipes for Life
by Becky Mauldin
- Soil, Grass and Cancer
by Andre Voisin
- Sweet Misery
DVD produced by Sound and Fury Productions
- Ten Days to Optimal Health
by Kristina Amelong, CNC, CT
- Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine
by Ron Schmid
- Urga (Close to Eden)
Nikita Mikhalkov
Miramax, 1991 (DVD & VHS)
- Whole Beast, The
by Fergus Henderson
The good news is that our local library does carry many of the books recommended by the Weston A. Price Foundation, including the Wise Traditions Journal and Nourishing Traditions.
If you haven’t read these books I highly recommend you check them out. Some of my favorites are: Nourishing Traditions (although I think everyone should own their own copy), back issues of Wise Traditions journals, Good Calories Bad Calories, The Cholesterol Myths, Eat Fat Lose Fat, Enzyme Nutrition, Real Food, The Untold Story of Milk, and Wild Fermentation.
Available at the Eugene Public Library:
(Reviews are available at Thumbs Up Reviews and in back issues of the Wise Traditions Journal):
- Wise Traditions Journal
by The Weston A. Price Foundation
- Good Calories, Bad Calories: challenging the conventional wisdom on diet, weight control, and disease
by Taubes, Gary.
- Cholesterol Myths, The: exposing the fallacy that cholesterol and saturated fat cause heart disease
by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD
- Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
- Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: natural and healthy personal care for every body
by Dina Falconi
- Eat Fat, Lose Fat: lose weight and feel great with three delicious, science-based coconut diets
by Mary Enig, PhD
- Eat Here: reclaiming homegrown pleasures in a global supermarket
by Halweil, Brian.
- Enzyme Nutrition
by Edward Howell, MD
- Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
by Russell Blaylock, MD
- Fateful Harvest
by Duff Wilson
- Fluoride Deception, The
by Christopher Bryson
- Fourfold Path to Healing, The : working with the laws of nutrition, therapeutics, movement and meditation in the art of medicine
by Cowan, Thomas S.
- Full Moon Feast
by Jessica Prentice
- Future of Food, The
DVD by Deborah Koons Garcia
- Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol
by Mary Enig, PhD
- Life Without Bread
by Wolfgang Lutz, MD, and Christian B. Allan, PhD
- Maker’s Diet, The
by Jordan Rubin, NMD, PhD
- Nourishing Traditions : the cookbook that challenges politically correct nutrition and the diet dictocrats
by Sally Fallon
- Our Stolen Future
by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
- Performance Without Pain
by Kathryne Pirtle
- Real Food: What to Eat and Why
by Nina Planck
- Schwarzbein Principle, The
by Diana Schwarzbein, MD and Nancy Deville
- Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating
by Jeffrey Smith
- Solved: The Riddle of Illness
by Stephen Langer, MD
- Something from the Oven
by Laura Shapiro
- Stolen Harvest
by Vandana Shiva
- Sugar Blues
by William Dufty
- Truth About Children’s Health, The
by Robert Bernardini
- Untold Story of Milk, The
by Ron Schmid, ND
- What to Eat
by Marion Nestle
- Wild Fermentation
by Sandor Ellix Katz
Happy reading!
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Other Sources and Information
As a Chapter Leader, I frequently receive emails from people and organizations that want me to pass some information on to you. I posted some in last month’s issue, and had positive responses, so I will continue to pass on this information.
This one should have gone out last month. I remembered getting the email, but I had filed it away so carefully that I couldn’t find it!
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