“Everything in a pig is good. What ingratitude has permitted his name to become a term of opprobrium?” Grimod de la Reynière No matter how many years that have gone by, it still amazes me when we come to the end of yet another year. The year always seems to end so abruptly after all…
The gift of comfort
I can’t think of anything as nurturing as a cup of tea, cradled lovingly in the hands, with the steam rolling up into your senses, promising to make the world a better place. Tea is one of the oldest and most revered of drinks in the world. It dates back at least 5,000 years. The…
Saving America’s farms one beet at a time
Glory be! We got our first CSA (Community supported agriculture) box today. I tell you, it was like a breath of sunshine all wrapped up in those nutrient filled green leaves. It is a promise that this long and dismal spring is actually going to end…someday. As I carefully unwrapped the tender veggies that had…
More fat myths
Last post I opened the preverbal can of worms by unveiling the heresy that fats are not only good for us they are a primal necessity for our body’s functions. Our culture has villainized them based on Ancel Keys’ work in the 1960s that was only a hypothesis and a poorly done one at that….
