Britta Pedersen/picture-alliance/dpa/ AP ImagesI was reheating some remaining cottage cheese loaf the other morning, enjoying the expression “home cheese loaf” as I anticipated its delicious, mouthwatering crunch, when I wondered if anybody had actually written a love letter to this or other classic Seventh-Day Adventist dishes.
She grew up Seventh-Day Adventist and presented me to what I call #LoafLife. A healthy diet and workout are central Adventist tenets, due to the fact that the group thinks in a relationship in between physical and spiritual health. The cottage cheese loaf is a basic mixture of chopped onions, walnuts, parsley, salt, pepper, butter, and home cheese bound together with eggs and Wheaties for a good wholesome texture.
To read more about the concepts that produced many fantastic meals for me, a non-practicing Jew, I did some sleuthing and discovered a couple of illuminating short articles about the Seventh-Day Adventist diet. Howard Markel wrote a great short Smithsonian short article entitled “The Secret Component in Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Is Seventh-Day Adventism.” But my favorite is journalist Emily Esfahani Smith’s 2013 Atlantic piece “The Lovely Hill: Where Individuals Live Longer and Better.”
Smith focuses on Loma Linda, California, which has among America’s largest Seventh-Day Adventist neighborhoods and, not remarkably, is understood for the health and longevity of its citizens. For the Biblical origi
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