Retro Sundays

I created the Retro Sundays series to help newer readers easily navigate the very best of this blog's enormous back catalog of content. Each Retro Sundays column serves up a selection of the best articles from this week in history here at Casual Kitchen.

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This Week in History at Casual Kitchen:

Why Salt Sucks (June 2010)
Here's why salt is one of the most dangerous, addictive and unhealthy food additives out there. Find out why it's not a coincidence that so many prepared and manufactured foods contain artery-bursting amounts of it.

Three Easy Blender Ready Smoothie Recipes (June 2010)
Inspired by my 100% raw food trial, here are three extremely simple and flexible smoothie recipes that you can whip up in just seconds.

Why Our Food Industry Isn't So Bad After All (June 2009)
Readers know I love to beat up on the food industry. But a curious event in early 2008 taught me to look at the food industry in a radically different way.

How to Use an Ibrik to Make Easy Turkish Coffee (June 2009)
Everything you need to know to make an amazing--and ridiculously strong--cup of Turkish coffee. I still sell a couple of ibriks a month via Amazon thanks to this post!

On Writing for Casual Kitchen (June 2008)
In this post I share the two steps that have helped keep Casual Kitchen going strong for nearly five years. Be sure to see part 2 of this series, Keeping Track, where I talk about the single most important factor that will dictate whether you build a long-term habit of writing or not. This post later inspired me to start my writing blog, Quick Writing Tips.


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