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The purpose of a challenge

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Challenges make a thing use its greatest capacity to complete a task or, even, to fulfill its purpose. Lacking a challenge, the thing might change its function or go away entirely, leading me to suspect that challenge is crucial to purpose.
Humans’ inclination to displace life’s challenges off of the body and onto a tool has [...]

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Taking the world by foot…

Saturday, July 4, 2009

For the last five days I have been traveling up the California coast with my partner, soon to be hubby, mostly by foot. We have met some wonderfully friendly people who helped us out when they didn’t need to. The air has been fresh and we are getting stronger everyday. The trip has made me [...]

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Fourteen Dishes; reliable experimentation

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Last week I found myself in a strange rut of trying new things. That is I couldn’t be satisfied with an easy dinner standby and over and over kept trying new dishes that ended up not working out very well and taking a ton of time. I tried a slow roasted salmon which I don’t [...]

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No compromise cookies

Monday, April 13, 2009

Life with more nourishing food so far has been really delicious and satisfying, it has even had plenty of variety and plenty of sweets. But it isn’t without some sacrifices, particularly in the realm of special treats. The other night my dreams were all about being at a bakery and eating sticky sugary white flour [...]

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Dear Readers,

Sunday, March 22, 2009

This is to acknowledge the space that you will experience between the last article and the next. I have many intended posts to share but a quick week in the woods and the preparation thereof is keeping me for a bit of time. The trip this week is to prepare for a Long Walk to [...]

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Rules to eat by? Words to live by?

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

After over 1,000 replies (so far) to Michael Pollan’s call for NY Times readers’ own guidelines for eating, I wonder who will be left to read his planned compendium of rules. It struck me after seeing the overwhelming amount of feedback that the volume and variety of responses sort of negates the purpose of such [...]

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The most basic bread

Friday, March 6, 2009

After 12 hours my Zarathustra Bread was done. It is actually very delicious with a really satisfying toothy and chewy texture with an occasional crunchy berry and surprisingly moist. It has a bit of sourness to it, and is more more like a hearty oat bar (or a Scottish oat cake) than bread exactly. I [...]

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One Less Jar

Friday, March 6, 2009

I realize that for a lot of people mayonnaise is a horrific subject for a photograph. But I made it and it’s delicious and it’s just an egg yolk and olive oil. Not so bad?

Homemade mayo now sits next to homemade salad dressing and is becoming one less processed packaged food we get pre-made. This [...]

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Thus Baked Zarathustra

Thursday, March 5, 2009

The name of this bread tells of how ancient it is. Wheat berries (pre-ground wheat) soaked for 2 to 3 days, ground up with salt and dried underneath a hot sun.
I ground mine in a food processor and baked them in a warmed oven (150 degrees)
The appeal to this bread I guess is its basic-ness. [...]

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Break Fast

Monday, February 23, 2009

With so many posts on dinners I figured a few words could be said on the food that starts our day.
I actually don’t do too much variety in breakfast because it is the time of day where route muscle memory serves well, and I don’t like to have to think too much about what I [...]

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