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My Food Rules

1. Cook: Cook with single ingredient foods as much as possible. Cook for and with others. Cook it all. Cook for the body and the soul.

2. Have a relationship with your ingredients: Grow food without synthetic fertilizers or commercial pesticides or source from someone who does. If the bugs eat it, then you can, too. Harvest from healthy lands and with permission of the land and land tenders. Use the grocery store as a back up for what you can’t find in your community.

3. Waste not: Preserve the bounty through fermenting, canning, drying, freezing, smoking, and pickling. Save scraps for stocks, animal feed or compost.

4. Use 2-3 times as much spice and herb as recipes (besides my own) call for.

5. If a recipe doesn’t include spices and herbs, improvise.

6. Pay attention to the way in which food moves through your body. If it’s uncomfortable, take note. If you feel great, take note, too.

7. Give thanks and support to all that sustains you, especially water.

For the past 5 years the people around me have asked “When are you going to write a cook book?” I kept telling them that when I’m snowed in on a farm for a winter, that’ll be the time. Now is that time! It’s turning out to be a manifesto, a cook book, a description of my way of life. This book yearns to be born and needs your support to do so. This campaign is all or nothing. I want to devote my winter and early spring to bringing it to life. I need your support to make it happen. If I don’t make my goal by Valentine’s Day, this book idea will go back on the shelf until next winter. So, are you with me? Do you want to see it happen now? Then donate to the campaign today!

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