Monthly Archives: August 2011

September/October 2011: Gift from the Sea…Sea Vegetables

To read this newsletter in its pdf form, click here to download the file:September/October 2011 Newsletter. Thank you. Throughout much of the year, I enjoy walking some of the same beaches and secluded coves as Anne Morrow Lindberg, author of Gift from the Sea (1955). In doing so, I am touched in many of the…

Phytic Acid

To Defuse or to Use Phytic Acid? What is phytic acid? Most of the phosphorus of plant foods is stored in the outer husk of grains, beans and legumes, nuts, and seeds in the form of phytic acid. Phytic acid protects the life force (the endosperm) of a seed from germinating until it is planted…

Fermenting

Summer Culture and the Summer Kitchen Traditionally at this time of the year, our forebears gladly left behind the warm hearth of the keeping room and moved to the summer kitchen. The summer kitchen was an addition added to the back of the house for hot-weather meal preparation and dining. Facing north,link this segment was…