July 26th, 2012 | D.I.Y., Traditional, bacon, baking, berry pie, D.I.Y., fruit pie, lard in pastry, making pastry, offal, pastry, rendering, slow food
Suffice to say that I have a greater understanding of the scent of a medieval household after my first experience rendering suet.
I’ve been reading The Great Mortality by John Kelly, a riveting account of the black plague and how it wound its way through Europe in the 14th century. Needless to say a key ingredient in its spread was the incredible filth of households in this period. People bathed rarely and garbage (think dead animals, toilet offerings, rotten food) was strewn about the streets. They also used lard or tallow in making candles. According to Kelly, lard wasn’t a preferred source of fuel because of the smell.
So let me get this straight. People who were surrounded by rotting flesh and human excrement complained about the smell of burning lard. How could this be?
July 18th, 2012
Reposted from description on youtube: Kanboshi(Drying the coldest) Daikon (White Radish) is made in Hida Kamioka (The next town of Takayama) the Yamonomura area as a preserved food for winter. Peeled, sliced radishes are boiled and then hung out under the eaves for about a month to expose the ...
June 27th, 2012
Click here to buy a unique handmade bilum on www.artfire.com now! Limited number available. The last time I spent more than a couple days in Papua New Guinea I learned how to make a bilum from a wonderful highland woman by the name of Kapaim. She was very patient with me--I was determined to ...
May 12th, 2012
Source: Sanhati
By Roma Today natural resources – land, forests, air, mineral and water – are under major attack from neo-liberalism, wherein a few are usurping the rights and access of a significant proportion of the disempowered. Unsustainable economic development and inequitable growt ...
May 10th, 2012
Source: First Peoples New Directions Eating is a political act and eating is also a cultural act that reaffirms identity. In his new book, Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience (University of Arizona Press 2012), ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón artfu ...
April 13th, 2012
Dr. Terry Wahls - Minding Your Mitochondria In 2003 Terry Wahls, M.D., was diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and soon became dependent upon a tilt-recline wheelchair. After developing and using the Wahls Protocol™, she is now able to walk through the hospital and comm ...
April 9th, 2012
Have any of you read The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird? I am sure many of you have and will appreciate this article. I am one of those people who, I have to confess, generally gets along better with plants than people, perhaps it is because I prefer to listen to th ...
April 6th, 2012
For anyone wanting to join in the full moon meditations of Aries, Taurus and Gemini to assist with bringing Shambhala to Earth the following outlines the history, rituals and invocation. There will also be a group meditation at the Roundhouse in Vancouver BC on the 5th of June from 7-9pm. The fo ...
April 6th, 2012
My first exposure to the legend of Shambhala was when I went to boarding school. There was a huge, plush, five-star Shangri-La (now Traders) hotel in the middle of the nearby town. Even the bathrooms were impressive, all in marble. In those days, although I had no idea that there was anything mo ...
February 12th, 2012
One of my favorite and most long-term friends on twitter is pdjmoo who tweets about all things wild, non-GMO and beautiful. Not only does she have a fantastic and informative twitter account that I highly recommend for staying on top of the latest news, but she also curates a few very informativ ...
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