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.
Category Archives: Diet
Vietnamese Pho, Straight Up
One of my favorite variations-on-theme is the myriad forms we humans have for preparing our daily bread.
Chai
We ate little at Ramana Maharshi’s ashram: certainly little compared to the standard American Diet. Steamed, fermented rice cake (which I grew to adore and now make at home); a splash of some pulse – a lentil or a dal; a dusting of some spice, poured over a plate of sewn leaves. That was breakfast, …
A flower the color of history
Every day should surrender a small jewel, something new and intriguing for the body or the mind. Every day does, unless you have been sleeping. I woke today to page 122 of the hardcover edition of Silk Road Cooking, by Najmieh Batmanglij: Saffron Long treasured as a medicine, perfume, dye, and seasoning,saffron consists of the golden stigmas of the …
Eating to Live
The grace of going away is that your eyes are refreshed for when you return. What you see once in your daily, then see again and again, gains a transparency, loses its edges, so that after a time it is no longer visible at all. This is to be expected: our senses are used to …