food
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Baked Pears
At the supermarket, I spotted some pairs, and remembered a sweet dish I baked in London in 2010. In fairly similar fashion, it happened last night. three pairs, cut in halves two cups of Chardonnay one cardamom pod, ground one star anise, ground one clove, ground ½ inch of a vanilla pod, squeezed Fifty minutes…
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Apple Wisdom
The seeds found in apples are bitter. Sounds like a natural defense against animals feasting on them. In addition, genetically, each seed will produce an apple tree which bears apples of a different variety. Naturally, each distinct variety would only exist as long as the lifespan of its tree of provenance. Source: “Botany of Desire”…
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Love Ingrained — a non blended Risotto
Love and paradise! Those are desired states for body and soul wishing to live a fulfilled and satisfied life, free of challenges, free of doubt. At least it seems to be a common sentiment amongst humans. To me, such states imply other connotations: a refined focus, lively observation, widened attention, and heightened physical and cognitive…
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Garlic distancing and ginger mask
After having lived in Berlin and Boston, Limassol and Liège, London and Vienna, and knowing that New York will not be my last, I have no reason to care much about the affairs of cities, commonly known as politics. Even in private, my comments will reveal little affiliation tendencies. Not systems help me conduct life…
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You are what you eat*
(as colorful as you eat, as vibrantly attentive as you digest. You are with certainty the freshness and the energy of what you intake, and you radiate with joy, in concordance with the discerning mind that has helped you acquire a sense of delicate taste, the very same that will impregnate your spirit to conquer…
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Garlic Time
The garlic power is not new to me. For decades, it has been one of my principal elements in medicinal prevention, next to honey, onions, ginger, and lemon. I hope this picture will attract a few new individuals to the beauty and simplicity of natural health, particularly in times when the immune system and preventive…
Sila Blume 