“Mom briefed us about poke being poison, especially the berries, yet she’d also eaten the fresh spring leaves her whole life. So she wasn’t militant about it. The plant was largely considered a farm nuisance due to its size and general lack of usefulness.”
“Cooking is still the best way to kill food borne bacteria. But how much cooking is enough to do the job? Should I nearly burn everything?”
“That said, one can help avoid cross-contamination with a few simple steps. Cross contamination is the most likely way these bugs get into your foodstuffs.”
“If legislation is truly designed to help small organic farmers, make it so. If legislation is designed to help big farmers move toward organic, make it so. But blurring the two with the word “family” only helps the corporate guys take advantage of us. “
“It doesn’t rely on meat for its flavor, so playing with it can teach one a lot about enhancing taste, with or without meat in the recipe.”
“To avoid these embarrassing situations, it’s best to have a few sports clichés to stymie these conversations quickly.”
“There is nothing like coming home from the beach, hot, sweaty, covered with a layer of sand, followed by jumping into the cool clean water…”
“Both exercise and meditation are beneficial, of course. Exercise keeps you healthy and alive while boosting mood-upping chemicals. Meditation keeps you from losing your mind among the clutter of day to day mental-junk-collection, which causes you to fixate obsessively on the mundane.”
