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. [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
As mentioned in my New Year’s post, we’ve started the adventure of making our food more active and getting as much of those slightly more processed foods from our own kitchen. Starting with a half gallon of raw milk on the kitchen table we aimed to make two things- whey (for future counter cultures) and [...]
A new book reaffirms old research and even older traditions. Heard yesterday on KQED’s program “Forum” Daphne Miller, MD has gone into the kitchens of historically healthy peoples to find out what they eat. Not surprising to me, and many others, particularly those who are cooking with Nourishing Traditions, she found that it is [...]
A very happy new year it seems to be already- so many possibilities and new opportunities for change. After a few weeks of vacation from the computer and lots of reading I have some major resolutions about diet and eating. I think the goals I have set forth are logical extensions of the basic Mind [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
There is nothing like that validating feeling of when something you’ve done for years for out of necessity starts to become “a thing”. This is especially nice when the trend towards becoming “a thing” indicates something positive happening in the world. For me this is the appreciation of the tiny living, and more specifically [...]
I realize that of all the animals in the world mice do not exactly get a lot of sympathy and most people are pretty comfortable with killing them especially when they inhabit and muss up, if not partly destroy, parts of our houses. The mouse that Robert Burns turns up in her nest with his [...]
Friday, November 21, 2008
I recently posted this piece on the Pop!Tech blog to share some of the ways my thinking about the recent election had been shaped by reading Margaret Wheatley’s book Leadership and the New Science. Wheatley’s work calls for the application of new science’s understanding of the nature and operation of the universe to how humans [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Recent coverage of changes in consumer spending, particularly on food choices, has unfortunately seemed to beat the drum of “you’re on your own” economics rather that looking at how limited resources can bring people together and also shift priorities as people see the connections between the choices they make and the world we live in.
Consumer [...]
I wrote a piece for Pop!Tech’s blog about the impact we can have by paying more for higher quality food but eating less- an approach to eating that can improve our health and the vitality of regional food systems, not to mention reducing the demand that raises global food prices causing serious food insecurity vulnerable [...]
