The Kraut of Dreams
The list below includes a few of the things that I was pondering before I drifted off to sleep one night a few weeks ago: What is growing in my garden and/or in season that I can ferment now? [...]
Poo, Part Deux
And so here we are again, looking at poop and the microbes that appear in it. As promised, I’m going share some details about my husband’s American Gut Project test results. But first a bit of [...]
I Poop Like Pollan
A few months ago I decided to have my microbiome analyzed through the “world’s largest open-source science project to understand the microbial diversity of the Human Gut,” the American Gut [...]
Wait, you teach what?
My husband and I recently returned from a 3-week trip to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. It was wonderful and beautiful and illuminating. The illuminating bit crept in every time we had the [...]
Content Event Recap
Well, it has been awhile since I participated in Content Magazine’s Iron Chef event on November 14 but an event recap was recently posted that I feel compelled to share. If you missed the [...]
There’s a map for that
It’s early December 2015 and I’m reeling from the most recent series of mass shootings, the embarrassing, horrifying shit show that is our electoral process, recent stories of police brutality, [...]
“Beets are deadly serious.”
In Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins wrote, “The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent [...]
Breaking Brood
For the record, I originally wrote this in July 2014 when, at the age of 50, I decided to go back to school. At the time I was studying sustainable food systems at the University of Vermont and [...]