The Happy Lemba

A little about Narda Narda Lepes was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1972. She lived in different countries with her family and developed the loved for cooking from an early age, deciding finally to dedicate her life to this profession. Her first approach was with the Japanese cuisine where she discovered cooking practices, valuable to develop habits to improve healthfulness. She led two Japanese restaurants and then, in 2008, published her first book called "Comerla y pasarla bien" (Eat and have fun) that is a manual to enjoy food and built good habits, with a plus of nutrition and shopping tips and how choose the ingredients. After that she also published, in 2017, "Ñam ñam. Manual para alimentar a un pequeño omnívoro" (Ñam, Ñam, manual to feed the little omnivore) orientated to develop good practices in food since an early age. Her Activism Her motto in Spanish is "comer rico" (eating well, or literally, eating richly) but this not is a reference on...

Domestication of animals is one of the features of human civilization, when our ancestors started to settle, and abandoned nomadism. They learn how to breed animals and plants, to have secure sources of food, this practices replaced in many centuries the practice of hunt and gathering. Cows were the first animals to be domesticated, together with pigs, sheep and goats. Cows were domesticated in the dawn of civilization, 10.500 years ago, in the Fertile Crescent, and in the next millennia they were introduced in Europa, Africa and east Asia, becoming an important source of meat, dairy and leather. They also were used as currency, to exchanges goods, pay taxes and ad a fixed price in the first civilization, before metal currency became popular. My reason to choose this animal is because in my native country, Argentina, cows are important in our economy and our beef has a high reputation. In most parts of my country, cows are grass-fed, and that contributes to its quality. Sustainable or...