You may have heard of this fermented health beverage called Kombucha. I have been drinking it casually for years when I was feeling a bit off balance, but last year I took a class about fermented foods by Donna Schwenk and it transformed the way I looked at cultured foods, including this crazy fermented tea called Kombucha. Donna explains in her book … [Read more...]
Just last week Meniscus contributor Jonathan Cody had the opportunity to attend the an exclusive preview of David Datuna’s Elements exhibition at the Birnam Wood Galleries in Manhattan's Chelsea art district. David Datuna’s portraits of iconic individuals will resonate through their cultural significance. From Andy Warhol to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis … [Read more...]
There is no question about it, if you want to stay healthy, you have to eat your vegetables. When you pull all your fresh veggies out of the bag to clean them, its time to think twice before you chop off the tops of those root vegetables and send them to the compost pile. This macrobiotic beet recipe is a great way to take advantage of that whole … [Read more...]
Meniscus Magazine is here to support the mind expansion side of health and wellness, this time we're talking about nutritional neuroscience. But before we get into that, in order to understand how to supplement the brain with different compounds, it is important to understand the basic functioning of the grey area. The brain consists of millions of cells … [Read more...]
Macrobiotic diet, the anti-cancer diet The Cancer Prevention Diet: Michio Kushi's Macrobiotic Blueprint for the Prevention and Relief of Disease is all about how to stay healthy with a simple, delicious macrobiotic diet—and the good news is that you don't have to be a millionaire celebrity to eat this way. Macrobiotics, first mentioned in 1797 in … [Read more...]
Women are highly intuitive creatures, much more so then us men. On a subtle level, they know what you are thinking. To treat a woman well, you have to be in the right mindset. This installment of the Gentleman’s Guide to the Goddess is about raising your mental discipline to the higher levels of consciousness. Mind your mind The first step in finding … [Read more...]
Open source human robot project As 150 million people gather around the tube to watch the Super Bowl, so are hundreds of millions in marketing dollars. It is possible that the Super Bowl and the NFL have the master advertising channel. Meniscus has started the Open Source Human Robot Project. We will be decoding the programs built into the human … [Read more...]
New York is not only the greatest city in the world, but it is a great teacher as well. The density of culture and technicolor array of ethnicities brings together an anything-goes city where nothing is out of the ordinary. It has been said that only after living here for seven years one can officially call themselves a New Yorker. I just crossed this … [Read more...]
Part I: Women are the most amazing, fascinating creatures on the planet and have the potential to bring happiness to not only us as individuals, but as a world as a whole. We as men need to treat them so, that is why we should be gentlemen. Every one of them represent the Divine Feminine. A Gentleman's Guide to the Goddess is a new series on Meniscus … [Read more...]
The story of eternity, summarized in 2 1/2 minutes by a modern day Avadhuta, NYC mystic Lawrence Laducer. In Indian traditions, Avadhutas are known for existing beyond the ego consciousness and thus live outside worldly concerns and standard social etiquette. Genius can sometimes seem a little crazy to the outside point of view. I'm not sure if this … [Read more...]