There is a post below on the limited visual experience of eating locally in the winter. Yes, even in the Bay Area where so much is available year round from not too far away, shopping at the farmer’s markets reveals growing seasons that limit choice and we saw, color. We have gone beyond emerging from [...]
Over the past few months I’ve changed my relationship with these sourdough beasties I’ve befriended to leaven and flavor my baked goods. I’ve both expanded the amount and variety of goods that I can make with them and I’ve let the little things be warm and active for longer periods. That is to say by [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I thought, fast forward ten years, that this would have been the book I wrote after rejecting the rat race and living off the land. Well, none of those things have quite happened yet (except, the rat race has been pretty much ignored in our house) but the book got written anyway- just, not by [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Up late last night washing dishes, I caught a report from the BBC on the discovery of heart disease in Egyptian mummies. My approach to eating is generally guided by the idea that eating real food is better for overall health and enjoyment and real food is traditional and old. Well mummies are nothing if [...]
This fall has been a hectic one but included the very fun task of making food for my friend who just had a first baby. Nursing moms (as well as pregnant ladies) are so fun to cook for because they eat a lions share, seem to especially enjoy eating, and really put that food to [...]
Thursday, October 15, 2009
This summer I spent a lonely week with a terrible cold. I passed the time watching the first three seasons of Bewitched, the old sixties sitcom. I got through so many episodes because, as the show progressed, I felt like I was getting a different impression of Samantha Stevens than I had ever before (since [...]
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 [...]
I’ve gotten my starter up and working again. This is the same starter I received in the Spring of last year. (It came from a very sprightly 80 year old, so that’s encouraging). I used it briefly but for most of the year it has sat neglected in the fridge. Now its clear that its [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
