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" I have made mention of this before but it is remarkable to see two exceedingly robust, but definitively conflicting, trends steer the grocery aisle into two oppositional camps. The first being the better living and better health through synthesis and chemistry (some would call these &amp;quot;Frankenfoods&amp;quot;) which consists of items like Omega-3 and beta carotene fortified soda pop, and fiber-rich desert topping. The other trend is the back to the land, eat more simply than you had ever thought possible approach that includes whole foods (fresh fruits and vegetables and various unprocessed foodstuffs) harkening back to a diet that was enjoyed by our ancestors (or as Michael Pollan advises, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t eat anything your grandmother wouldn&amp;#039;t recognize as food&amp;quot;).     A small ambitious project out of New York City is attempting to exploit this regressive eating approach to its logical end (or beginning depending on how you look at it). Cavemen Cookies are, presuming if cavemen had the means or even the desire to bake cookies, all natural and high protein cookies made simply with ingredients that would have been available to a Paleolithic cave dweller. With a recipe that includes only honey, almond flour, walnuts, raisins, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon, these exceptionally chewy cookies are all part of a larger model referred to as the Paleo Diet, as in from the Paleolithic era where humans subsisted off of only foods that could be hunted or gathered. Now this diet attempts to mimic the diet of pre-agricultural hunter gatherers whose diet also included mushrooms, wild game, and insects (thankfully none of which make it into these cookies) under the thought that we are genetically better adapted to digest and metabolize these foods rather than the myriad of contemporary processed foods we are more likely to consume. Cavemen cookies, while a truly natural processed item that adheres to the tenants of the Paleo diet, is more or less a cute alternative to the innumerable cookie options out there. Packaged in a modest brown paper bag with clever packaging art reminiscent of the BC comic strip, these cookies, while conceptually cool, are likely just too darn chewy for most people. Granted they look like a cookie, but they perform more a nougat. This is largely due to the generous amounts of honey and nut meal yielding a glutinous texture (although it is gluten-free) and a pleasant, but not overwhelming, honey flavor. But there is something enduringly appealing about them, even if they do require a fair amount of work to masticate. Cavemen Cookies are available in bags of 12 cookies ($10.99 per bag) and sold at Agnes and Eva&amp;#039;s Tasty Goods, Westerly&amp;#039;s Natural Market, and online.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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