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Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western …
Then when we were in high school he was a books guy, he grew a beard before anybody else and claimed to have read Moby Dick. I tried to read it too but got lost. Sub-Sub-Sub-Sub-Librarian? All I know is it's all underwater. Maybe a submarine.
— Darryl by Jackie Ess
Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western …
I'm really enjoying this two pages in
@bremner@book.dansmonorage.blue I realized just now I meant "How High We Go in the Dark" but the status probably applies to this book too
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood …
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood …
We are artist and sailors, and have been living, and working from our sailboat since 2016.
In 2020, we completed …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
It’s spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to …
It’s spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment …
This series is fun, nice to have detective novels that aren't super cop-y
@bremner@book.dansmonorage.blue yeah I was giving it the benefit of the doubt at first but it just gets less and less tenable..
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a …
The further I get into this, the more I can see how good a choice not including recipe was. It supports the flexibility and experimental attitude of the authors "dumpster dive some fruit, throw it in a bucket, add things to taste, and see what happens" philosophy
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a …
Content warning bad autism and mental illness take
Can Fermented Foods Help Cure Autism? ... According to McBride, restoring the health of the intestinal microbiota is key to recovery from not only autism but also a range of common psychological conditions including depression, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia, and even dyslexia.
That was quite a yikes moment in what I thought was otherwise a pretty measured chapter on the health benefits of fermented food.
To his credit, in Fermentation as Metaphor, Katz writes:
I never really questioned the assumptions behind any of this until recently, when I received a letter from an adult on the autism spectrum who had enjoyed my books but had been taken aback by my discussion of autism in The Art of Fermentation, in which I describe the role of live fermented foods in some people's "recovery" from autism. This person write, "Autism is not a disease to be cured, but instead autistic people are just neurodivergent. Different, but not wrong." ... I wholeheartedly concur.
@Tak@reading.taks.garden love a good orb
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a …
Content warning food/alc
One interesting aspect of kefir is that most of the products prepared commercially in the United States and much of the world are not made using traditional kefir grains. Instead they are made using starter cultures consisting of some of the known organisms that are part of the traditional kefir symbiosis, but not all of them, and without the complexity and resulting unity of kefir's evolved life-form. A few reasons for this are cited in the literature. One is the slow increase in the size of the kefir grains, resulting in limitations on expanding production. Another is the difficulty of producing a consistent product due to the complex microbiology of kefir grains. In addition, the alcohol present in kefir -- which definitely has the potential to increase above the 0.5 percent maximum level for non-alcoholic beverages -- can create regulatory and legal challenges, as we have seen with kombucha.
I had been wondering why the kefir I make at home is totally different than kefir I buy at the store! thank you
