Star anise, cardamom, cinnamon
Milk rice essay
Tag: cinnamon
Repetition is a form of change
The past, and the next second, the experience, and the hunger, joy, and its intermittent absence, everything, everything seems to be the resilience which demands repetition, not to preserve life but to live it — in composed sounds, in uttered words and their placement, in the gentle push to invest mind, spirit, and flesh, even… Continue reading Repetition is a form of change
Coffee, cinnamon, saffron
Coffee, clove, star anise, and cinnamon
D’Anjou Future
Star anise, cardamom, allspice, and cinnamon
A short guacamole chronicle
Coriander, cinnamon, cumin.
Mortar and Pestle, with cinnamon, juniper, cloves, star anise, lavender
Spices for a Cabernet Sauvignon reduction, with figs, plums, navel peel, and blueberries.
Prolonging Transcendental States
“Transcendent states are often desperately short-lived: a few moments late at night or at dusk; on a plane or train journey across wide open country. But we can, through certain ingredients (especially lavender, cardamom, turmeric, and cinnamon), access them a little more systematically and thereby loosen the grip of our insistent egos.”In “Thinking & Eating”,… Continue reading Prolonging Transcendental States
Celebration Day — twenty-one
The Genesis of my peripheral attention is unknown to me. The term has been a familiar one since my childhood but at some point, perhaps through a self inflicted period of auto investigation, after two decades trusting a higher power, I look deeper and wider, breathe deeper and wider, my taste penetrates clearer and wider.… Continue reading Celebration Day — twenty-one
Miller
Star anise, cardamom, vanilla, clove, cinnamon, sugar — for today’s Milchreis
Sila Blume 