If eating healthy food is important to you, there is such a simple way to accomplish it. Generally, simple food is healthy food. They do not have a long list of ingredients nor a printed label to put their ingredients on. Lettuce does not have the label that says "Lettuce." It does not need a label with a list of ingredients either.
Since I became a Chef, I have been researching the cuisine in France. Time and again, my findings led me to construe that this principle can be found everywhere in France.
As a result, if you take direction from French cuisine, you can be reassured that you are eating healthy meals by practicing "Terroir Cuisine." Terroir is a French word that literally means "earth." It has come to be used as all things that are produced locally to where you live. As explained to me, Terroir is "Sun, soil, and the love of the farmer."
Pascale Mierve is the owner of L'Epicerie Fine one multi-generational Grocery and Spice Dealer. He explains "Terroir" in such an elegant way... "You have to respect seasons." He tells me that "You should not eat tomatoes in December... you eat potatoes in December."
What French cuisine has taught me, and Pascal is verifying, is that eating healthy foods means eating what is grown or produced locally AND what is harvested seasonally. Also, it means to stay away from fattening foods with no nutrients.
The most nutritious and the most flavorful foods are those that come from within a few miles of your home, and do not have an ingredient label. Eating healthy food should not be a top secret. It is because ~if you eat local and seasonal~ you will be eating healthy, and that is not a secret.
I hope that you will take the lessons that I have learned from studying French cuisine. Should you be wise enough, you too will begin eating fresher ingredients from your local farmer.
About Author Chef Todd Mohr
Chef Todd Mohr is a classically trained chef with a philosophy: "Burn recipes and learn to cook like French do." His secret is revealed in his online cooking classes.
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