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In Michael Pollan’s recent book and Netflix documentary Cooked, we are invited to reflect upon and celebrate the influence of cooking on humanity.  I first stumbled onto the series last fall, and was delighted to see how Pollan incorporated all of the areas I care most about studying these days: tradition, ceremony, community, nature, ancestors, food. […]

Texas seems to be having one of those particularly widespread flu seasons that strikes every few years.  My daughter and husband both succumbed to it in January, as did several extended family members. Fortunately all are on the mend, and I am now eagerly watching the calendar days tick closer toward spring! I was grateful to […]

A family member sent me an easy recipe earlier this month for a homemade scented vinegar cleaning solution.  I had success with it, so I wanted to share it with you! In an effort to reduce chemical exposures in our home, we’ve almost exclusively cleaned with diluted vinegar since having children ten years ago.  It works well […]

  Over the holidays, like many families, my kids had fun using an advent calendar filled with little notes to help them countdown to Christmas.  Ours had prompts that gave them an assignment to do each day. These would vary from things like helping around the house to performing a random act of kindness. Our original […]

“Like the earth itself, the various arts of fermentation rely on biology to transform organic matter from one state to a more interesting and nutritious other state.” ~ Michael Pollan, Cooked   Last year, one of my 2016 New Year’s resolutions was to learn how to make Kombucha tea at home.  My daughter and I […]