If you've read any nutrition writing in the last twenty years, you've been told, repeatedly, that the Mediterranean diet is the healthiest way to eat. Olive oil, fish, vegetables, legumes, modest wine, long lunches in the Italian countryside. The Mediterranean diet has real evidence behind it, that's not the issue. The issue is that an entire field has flattened the global landscape of nutritionally excellent food traditions into one Italian-Greek-Spanish ideal, while treatin

Around Mother's Day every year, I get a particular kind of message. Not a question about meal prep or macros. Something more like: "I keep saying things to my daughter that my mother used to say to me, and I hate it." If you've been feeling that quiet horror — recognizing your mother's voice coming out of your own mouth at the dinner table — this post is for you. Here's how to interrupt the pattern, gently and without burying yourself in guilt about it. Where do food rules co