Here comes 2024!
This blog and site have seen quite a few transformations since 2008 when I started here and there is more coming. I have not fully fleshed it out; the goal is to create a cohesive flow of the NOURISHED ventures. So stay tuned! Meanwhile, in 2023 I birthed NOURISHED Gardens + GreenSpaces, an ode to the land and beauty thereof, and a journey to bring wonder and joy to as many as I can - an endeavor to give to others and to myself.
All in all, people, can you see I am growing up and becoming an adult? :)
And while I have been ruminating, I picked back up on baking. And the sharing of recipes! :)
Because life is not discrete, but a continuum ...
I have been thinking a lot about life.. Mine in particular. About the lives I have led, the lives I have cast aside, the lives I chose thinking they would be better, the lives I got wrong, the lives I did right but did not realize because I could not articulate or perhaps, because of hubris. But, mostly, of how amazingly lucky I have been to have lived and be living!
Sometimes though, things stay with you through all of those lives, despite you; indeed, without conscious thought. Like that thread of connection or perhaps and safe comfort of acceptance and acceptable. For me, through all the changes, ups and downs of my life - one thing has stayed constant - from birth to now ….
And I Came Home...
Just over a year ago, I decided I needed a hiatus. A change. A chance. Something new. Utterly different. Something to slap me in the face and wake me up. A few months ago, an opportunity landed on my lap; it sounded too good to be true. And, it was! Too Good and Too True! :)
The long and short of it, is that I spent 9 months living outside US, for the most part based in Italy, traveling Europe, Asia and collecting information about cultures, peoples' values, real life experiences, what food means to people in different spaces in life and the world,.... and, yet how similar we all are.
Changing a Lifestyle
I need your Help! What do you do?
Those of you who are paleo, grain free, gluten intolerant, what do you do, when carrying lunch is not an option and are stuck finding lunch while on the move?
A Mystery Up at Stone Barns
The first time I heard of Stone Barns was a few years ago when Mike and I were tossing around ideas for a piece I was going to write for Spenser Magazine. But, the timing did not work out with the publishing schedule, that plan got parked and I wrote about Uruguay instead. We attempted to revisit it again later but it quite never came through.
Last Summer, as an excuse to practise my driving skills, patient teacher and I decided to head to the famed farm to table pioneers and see what the fuss was all about. Blue Hill Cafe in NYC and the restaurant up in Stone Barns has been making headlines in the new whole know-your-food movement taking off in the US. The thing that always gets me about these places is ...