Tag: food

  • Spice dump

    Spice dump

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 24, 2024 Growing up, there was a single spice rack screwed onto our apricot-colored kitchen wall, the same kind virtually every family in our neighborhood had in the 60s and 70s, with a set of 12 spices that never seemed to diminish over the course of many years, including things…

  • Snowflakes are us

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 12, 2024 Very early on in the health coaching coursework, we were introduced to the concept of “bio-individuality,” which essentially means that each one of us is unique in our body’s history, make-up, and responses.  We forget this, given that we’re all human and given our proclivity to want someone…

  • Eating stems

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 29, 2024 A while ago, while scrolling through the social media accounts that I’ve convinced myself make a difference in my life, I came across a young chef (Max La Manna, who seriously looks like he isn’t old enough to drive) cutting up cilantro stems instead of using just the…

  • Inhabit the now

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 15, 2024 “It takes a long time to become young,” Pablo Picasso said. Every March, because it’s my birth month, I think of this whole notion, for me and everyone else on planet Earth, of entering the world, taking a breath, and being a human.  Partly, this is because March…

  • B-R-R-Ring it

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 29, 2024 “Cold water is merciless, but righteous.” – Wim Hof What is it exactly about cold exposure that speaks to humans? The cold shower, the plunge, winter swimming, lying in the snow, face in the snow, or even hands, feet or face in ice water? While some can think…

  • Perfect foods

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 1, 2024 Once my father, a retired Lt. Colonel in the Army and a mechanical engineer, was let go in the big layoff at Boeing in the 70s, he decided to stay home, much to my mother’s dismay. It was just three of us by then, instead of six, and…