cooking as essential life skill

or be a slave to their offerings

Van Boucle, 1640

I contend that in order to grow and raise truly nutrient dense foods one must also be an unabashed devotee of such foods. An eater of great gusto. An admirer of the simple peasant foods that come to us dripping in flavour and rich, glorious fat. A keen awareness of the need to offer that beautiful food little more than a gloss of fat and…