Welcome 3 – Elanboat

Little Being needs a boat.

The Standing Desk [reborn]

When we traded from one side of the Atlantic to the other, not everything could come along.

உப்புமா | Rava Upma or Rice Uppumavu

Enjoy your porridge, whatever language flavors it.

Ferment!

The ancient art of food preservation was left behind with new invention, and has slowly returned to favor as we recognize, with some chagrin, that these novelties can cost more than their worth.

12 – Minor Miracles

Pragmatic monument to years upon years of human construction.

16 – The Freedom of Limitations

Popular culture in the US of A abandoned quality for quantity long ago.

Seitan – Home Production

I came to a point in my spiritual journey when other creatures were raised to the same level of importance as myself.

Vietnamese Pho, Straight Up

One of my favorite variations-on-theme is the myriad forms we humans have for preparing our daily bread.

strike here

From mundane moments, victories that are larger in fact than in appearance.

Ful Medames

Withdrawing from the chaos – hoping it would not follow me – I turned to the kitchen, for the late, light nourishment of ful medames, an Egyptian blend of fava, garbanzo and spices.