Isabel is a registered dietitian nutritionist who has grown up working on Wisconsin farms, has cooked and organized within the Slow Food movement, and has been a class assistant at The Chopping Block since 2019. She likes to bring a farm-to-table, nutrition focus with food and has some budget-friendly tips from her work with a Chicago food pantry as well. She loves to explore local restaurants, record stores, and websites of available foster dogs for when she can find a bigger apartment.
Recent Posts
Immune-Boosting Foods: How to Avoid the Sniffles
A battleground full of first-wave defenses of thick walls, burning acid and goo, followed by a second wave of soldiers to recognize and fight the enemy. That’s the opening scene to the blockbuster ...
Don’t freak out. There are bugs all over you. Over 100 trillion of them. But they’re not actually bugs; they’re microbes and they do some pretty phenomenal things for us, especially the ones found in ...
What are those percentages on a nutrition label? Is 800mg of sodium a lot? What exactly is the difference between carbs and sugars? We’ve all been there: standing in a grocery store aisle, turning ...
The Misunderstood Chili Pepper: More Than Just Heat
Whether it’s watching tears being shed during a Hot Ones video or desperately fanning your mouth yourself, we all have what I like to call “spice memories.” Most of mine happen to take place on the ...
If a sci-fi movie and a high school biology class had a child, it’d be tempeh. It sort of looks like a brain and involves fermentation (a process that is just as complex as a brain’s), but don’t ...
Superfoods are the food industry’s superheroes: they’re touted as “powerful,” having “superpowers” and being “extra-nutritious.” I mean, who wouldn’t want a superhero in their life? I personally ...
