Cedar Writes

Tag: chemicals

  • The Dose Makes the Poison

    The Dose Makes the Poison

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I recently stumbled across this quote by Paracelsus (ok, I knew it before, but not who originated it), and it fits well with the topics I frequent here on the blog. Food, cooking, chemistry, wild edibles – and their flip side, wild poisons. Snakes, spiders, centipedes… and sometimes wasps. Toxicology has been a long-time interest…

  • Persistent Food Myths

    Persistent Food Myths

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    We live in a time when the concept of famine is distant. It happens to someone else, far away, and we collect pennies at school to help the poor starving children we can’t quite identify with. I am an American, and my culture is one of plenty. The cornucopia of what is available to me…