A Story of Kindness “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music“. Frederich Nietzsche John rises at four o’clock Wednesday morning, completes his morning absolutions of prayer, yoga, music and breakfast then dresses for the day. He steps out to his front yard, pauses…
Category: Food
The Story of Soup
The reasons for humans creating pottery to cook with are still not well understood, yet one can surmise that hot soup was a huge event in the lives of the Ainu during this period of long winters.
Corn People
The year of my thirteenth birthday I fell in love, with a vegetable. It was the summer of 1972 and driving across country with relatives to visit relatives wasn’t exactly a teenager’s idea of a dream summer vacation. The goal was a small town in Indiana primarily inhabited by farmers, and corn. Miles and miles…
The Life that Sustains Us – Flying on the Wings of Pollinators
(Previously published in the The People’s Vanguard of Davis on 8/25/2015) “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left”. This quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein and while there is scant evidence that he did indeed say this, there is, according to…
A Day Without a Cup of Coffee
Wild Arabica, the very first seed, smuggled out of Arabia by Baba Budan during his pilgrimage to Mecca around 1600 traveled on to Paris and Martinique .The descendants of this seedling of coffee may just have a final resting place 810 miles from the North Pole, on the Norwegian Island of Spitsbergen. Banked into a…
Say it Out Loud
Aldo Leopold said, “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” And he was right.
UnCooked Creations in AnUnPlugged Kitchen 
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