Day Nine
Today, I read that Ghandi made salt from the sea to protest the British taxation of salt. Hmmm. Didn’t we protest British taxation ourselves a time or two? In having to be careful of the salt I have available because I can’t buy more, I wonder: did those early Europeans learn as I have that parsley on the tongue tastes a bit like salt?
Day Ten
As I cooked yet another squash, I remembered that other cultures consider squash, beans and corn as the three sisters because they work so well together to provide both flavor and nutrition. I have learned that foods that we often eat together out of habit, actually have either a nutritional or digestive basis for being eaten together: apples and cheese or cheese and olives (although no olives for me now), greens and beans. I sometimes react negatively to cheese but not so much when I eat it with apple as I almost always do these days. My new mantra: Thank God for Apples continues.
