“You can’t have the light without the shade.”– Stephen Fabes After a long, cold winter here in Portugal, I was quite excited when the days started to warm up and the landscape around me was transformed in froth of white flowers breaking over the slope of the neighbour’s land like a giant wave. Spanish broom […]
“Walking is falling forward. Each step we take is an arrested plunge, a collapse averted, a disaster braked. In this way, to walk becomes an act of faith.” – Paul Salopek For the first two days of my four-day stay in Lisbon, between my appointment at immigration, and picking Michael and the cats up from […]
“. . . how we eat is a reflection of how we live.”– from: Bread, Wine, Chocolate – The slow loss of foods we love by Simran Sethi One of the things I’ve dreamed of since we’ve bought the land was a vegetable garden. I’ve dabbled with growing vegetables before, but there was either not […]
“Food is a very conservative aspect of culture but the erosion on the use and knowledge about wild food plants is higher than that of allotment food plants. The decline in wild food gathering appears to be due to negative connotations, i.e., association with times of scarcity, especially during and after the Civil War (1936–1939).” – […]
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