Posts tagged "food":
Veganism
In the early 2000s, when I first visited Plum Village, the mindfulness practice community near Bordeaux, it was vegetarian. In some of the meals they would include eggs and dairy products, then, as a response to climate change, Thich Nhat Hanh and the community members decided that Plum Village would observe a vegan diet. That was how the retreat I just attended was also conducted. As someone at the end of the retreat calculated, that was 360 delicious meals prepared without the use of animal products.
I learn from Greta Thunberg's new book ("The Climate Book" that "shifting towards a plant-based diet could save us up to 8 billion tonnes of CO2 every year. The land requirements of meat and dairy production are equivalent to an area the size of North and South America combined."
Thich Nhat Hanh was a little ahead of the mainstream in his understanding and adaptation to the climate emergency, but actually, the book that first turned me on to vegetarianism, after leaving my parents' home in the '70s, was "Diet for a Small Planet", which was written in 1971 by Frances Moore Lappé. That was really far ahead in its promotion of a vegetarian diet for the good of the planet.
2022-03-19 Auntie Alice's recipe book - opml files - SeaMonkey - Hubzilla Cards - Zelensky
When we moved from Yorkshire to Virginia in 1969, my Auntie Alice gave my mom a handwritten notebook of her cake and dessert recipes.
My mom treasured the book and used it a lot - it had everything from her syrup sponge puddings to her Christmas cakes. When I was there one time I scanned the notebook and have now collected all together into a 20-page PDF[1] which I have placed in Hubzilla's file storage.
If I would use it I'd want to substitute for ingredients like eggs and suet in some of them, but it's a nice thing to pass down to future generations. I tried in various ways to get the PDF size down, eventually settling on a batch conversion in XnView. Finally I got it down from 162 MB to just under 15.
On the way, I have added a wiki post [4] describing what I like about SeaMonkey.
Zelensky and Palestine
Zelensky is to address Israel's parliament on Sunday. (The speech will be also broadcast in Tel Aviv's main square). The mainly Arab Joint List party may boycott it, though Mansour Abbas of the United Arab List says he will attend. He spoke on Israeli TV saying that evidently this was because they (with their communist roots) consider Russia to be a continuation of the former communist state. But Ilan Pappé, an Israeli historian who self-exiles in the UK, writes in the Palestine Chronicle [6] why Palestinians might not feel so enthusiastic about Zelensky:
The Ukrainian establishment… is also disturbingly and embarrassingly pro-Israeli. One of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s first acts was to withdraw the Ukraine from the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – the only international tribunal that makes sure the Nakba is not denied or forgotten.
The decision was initiated by the Ukrainian President; he had no sympathy for the plight of the Palestinian refugees, nor did he consider them to be victims of any crime. In his interviews after the last barbaric Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in May 2021, he stated that the only tragedy in Gaza was the one suffered by the Israelis.
Thanks to Manuel for sharing a Spanish version of the article.
The Libre Planet conference [7] has some interesting speakers. Unfortunately my attempts to listen to it have resulted in failure so far, due to the buffering lag. Perhaps afterwards I will manage to watch/listen to the recordings. Links
- Recipe Book (for download)
https://www.vikshepa.com/static/auntie-alices-recipe-book.pdf
- SeaMonkey (in wiki)
- Chana Dhal (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/mar/19/chana-dal-recipe-tamal-ray
- Navigating our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine
- LibrePlanet conference
https://libreplanet.org/2022/live/
Each Firefox download has a unique identifier https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/
Google gives Black workers lower-level jobs and pays them less, suit claims https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/18/google-black-employees-lawsuit-racial-bias
Life imitates art as seven charged over robbery from Lupin set https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/seven-charged-in-france-over-daylight-robbery-on-lupin-set-omar-sy
Spanish driver who ate hash cakes claims diplomatic immunity from non-existent state https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/spanish-driver-hash-cakes-claims-diplomatic-immunity-menda-lerenda
Nicholas Johnson: Why I do not use a pseudonym Inspiring. https://nicksphere.ch/2022/02/28/why-i-dont-use-a-pseudonym/
Lunch was...
home-made hummus/tahini from:
- raw tahini
- frozen chick peas (cooked a little)
- freshly squeezed lemon juice
- a local (extra-virgin or whatever) olive oil
- muji (maybe) miso paste (mixed with a little hot water to create a liquid)
- Mexican hot pepper sauce
- water
all mixed in the food processor.
- 3 slices of spelt bread
- salad from organic cucumbers, tomatoes, with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, Himalayan salt.
Appam
Appam – They brought me this for breakfast and it was the first time I’d had it. It’s quite vegan (made from fermented rice flour and coconut milk. South India has a wide range of breakfast possibilities. (https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/appam-recipe-kerala-appam/)