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Sep

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Rambler’s Way Farm. All opinions are 100% mine.

There is something with worsted wool fabric that attracts me. So when my folks gave me money on my birthday to go on a shopping spree, the first thing that I purchased was Ramblers Way’s Women’s Next-to-Skin Camisole. Made from worsted wool fabric, they tend to be uniform and firm, usually lighter in weight and can often be worn year round.

An ordinary wool sweater is typically itchy, heavy, hot and uncomfortable. Those sweaters made with worsted wool fabrics feel even better. I know, because I wore one from my aunt’s before and the feeling of comfort and softness were the things that I fell in love with worsted wool fabrics. And what better products than Ramblers Way especially made on American Soil.

Ramblers Way has done a great job of providing worsted fabric wool apparel using organic, no-till practices in the process protecting wildlife habitat and preserving critical ecosystems. This ensures that the materials are superfine and sustainable year round. To tell you the truth, I could wear this all the time. If we are talking about comfort, the apparels at Rambler’s Way are definitely tops on my list.

Re-imagine the wool, the Rambler’s Way.

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Sep

How Pine Nuts Can Ruin Tastebuds For Weeks

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It’s a chef’s worst nightmare: to wake up one morning to find that food has lost its flavor — that every morsel to cross your lips tastes bitter, metallic, and inedible. Report says half of patients who think they have a food allergy actually don’t. This was the fate of San Francisco-based chef and food critic Jenna VanGrowski, who suffered from a bizarre taste disturbance last month known as “pine mouth.”

Though she didn’t know it at the time, the bitter aftertaste that came with anything she ate was due to a rare and seemingly random reaction to eating pine nuts. She snacked on some two days before. Various “palate cleansing” foods failed to get rid of the metallic aftertaste, known medically as metallogeusia.

The cause? It seemed the handful of pine nuts she snacked on days prior was the unlikely culprit. Fortunately, she also discovered that the reaction is temporary; most cases go away on their own in one to four weeks.

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