Wholistic Woman
Embracing a whole life approach to wellness
Ila Schaafsma (1930-2009) Ah, coffee; warming my hands that surround your mug. I love your fragrance that fills our house as you are ground and brewed, and awakens my nose as I lift you to my lips. As your familiar taste flows over my tongue and down my throat I am transported back to a …
I have almost finished with all the autumn recipes in Simply in Season. I had already planned to have guest bloggers review the cranberry recipes, but another fruit has become just as problematic: the persimmon. In the past month or so various persimmon recipes have been appearing in my favorite local cooking blogs and magazines, …
I wish I could tell you that I jumped right into the local cuisine of Zambia, including the nshima that I had had in Malawi a couple of years ago and the caterpillars sold along the roadside. Unfortunately, I had neither. On Sunday after church we drove for most of the day from Gulu to …
Well friends, I’m back from my trip! What an adventure. I’ll have to post the pics later because all my photos are downloaded to my coworker’s laptop and I am taking a few days off of work to recover from jet lag. I’ll be posting my culinary review over the next few days as time …
As part of the quest to educate myself on how our food choices affect others, I watched Food, Inc. today. The movie touched me more than I thought it would. I’ve seen SuperSize Me, I’ve driven by CAFOs, I’m vaguely aware of the environmental issues of megafarms. I know that fast food and meat purchased …
