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There’s a raw juice movement sweeping the nation, as it seems to do from time to time. I remember my family briefly going through a similar craze when I was young. It seems to be a binge and purge business, there one , gone the next. This goes a ...

I’m growing to really love Michael Pollan. Among other things, Pollan’s seventeen TED Talk (above) takes us on a tour of the survival of the fittest, from a grass-eye perspective. Pollan, director of the Knight Program in Science and ...

I don’t know why I’m only getting around to posting this now, it’s quite a treasure. A few months ago our resident Tanja-avatar-designer and most prolific video commenter, Steelee, told me about this post he had found on how to build a better ...

This Valentines day, weve gone buck-rogers with a racy show about aphrodisiacs! For the occasion weve concocted a pulse-pounding chocolate sauce chock-full of sensuous spices like maca, cayenne, and cinnamon to get you in the mood for love. Treat your ...

Thanks largely to the inspiration of Heidi Ohlander and Philip McClusky, I’ve been on a bit of a raw juicing jag for the last week. This trend is going around at the moment and I’ve finally gotten on board, or at least am beginning to wade in. While ...

This episode we take you on a quick and dirty (and occasionally bloody) history of Valentines Day.  The story of this holiday and its patron saint is still a bit of a mystery.  From Roman pagan festivals (Lupercalia), to saintly love letters sent from ...

Happy Lunar New Year! February 7, 2008 begins the year of the Rat, the first year of the Chinese zodiac, a time of activity and renewal. Today we’ll take you on a quick tour of lunar new year basics, factoids, and food traditions. It is said that this ...

Sometimes things don’t work out quite like one envisions them. This recipe was inspired by Anthony, aka the Raw Model, and his nifty list of 5 things to eat every day for health and beauty. It was a well-intentioned soup, simple and unassuming, ...

Today Tanja takes us on a quick and winding historical journey into the world of the grapefruit. Born in Barbados in the 1700s, this surprisingly young fruit is wonderously bright and precocious for its age. A veritable cancer-fighting super agent, ...

This episode would probably be better simply titled “Sage-Pistachio Pesto”, but the allure and onomatopoeia possibilities of the word squash were too many to avoid. This recipe is another winner. We originally shot this episode before we left on our ...

I was sent this video by a friend (thanks Melissa) a couple of months ago, but haven’t posted about it until now. The woman in the video, Eva Vertes, is a brilliant young “microbiology prodigy” currently researching the nature of ...

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Well, here it is, a day late, but present and accounted for. We found the Japanese tradition of Furoshiki a beautiful and green alternative to wrapping with, and tossing a bunch of paper this holiday season. We hope you enjoy today’s episode, and ...

Click To Play It’s day two of the Freshtopia.net Christmas Special! We hope you enjoyed our first day of Christmas Pockets, pocket stuffers, and relaxing yoga. Now get ready to plunge into a recipe that’s more than fit for the ...

Click To Play Click To Play Welcome! This is an event that will one day reach great renown… the first Christmas Special in online media history. Well, the first to our knowledge at any rate. This is day one of ...

This episode we bring you a dish that we made for last week’s dinner party with Ryanne, Jay and Eddie. The dish is Celery Root Soup, and it’s the perfect comfort-food compliment to a cold Autumn day. Celery Root, also known as Celeriac, is an often ...

Welcome to the first video installment of our new “Dinner And A…” series. In this episode, we get a visit from Ryanne Hodson of RyanIsHungry, Jay Dedman of Momentshowing, and Eddie Codel of Geek Entertainment TV. As this was our first attempt at ...

This past weekend was a busy one at the BOT house. We ended up playing host to two dinner events, in and amongst filming, editing, site upgrades and day jobs. It was a clear illustration of both the fact that we are probably more busy than is healthy, ...

We had a great time at The Winnies this past weekend. The Winnies were organized by the entertaining and highly motivated team of Irina Slutsky (Geek Entertainment TV), Lan Bui and Bonnie Pierzina of NoodleScar, and Vu Bui of Vu Goes Vegan. They made ...