by Lillian Lake | | Food, Spiritual
This is the time of year when there is no shortage of things to write about in regard to anything that has to do with food. This week particularly has interesting cultural events. Mabon is officially on September 22, which also marks the Autumnal Equinox. This timing...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food
I try to make a practice of taking time for reflection. Sometimes that time goes as deep as one may call meditation. Most often I simply steal a moment here and there and allow my mind to relax and “freefall.” Well, this week, this practice helped recall a story from...
by Lillian Lake | | Coffee, Food
It’s hard to feel balanced when so much is happening in the world that makes us feel unbalanced. Hurricane Harvey has consumed our interest in recent days, and Hurricane Irma made its way through the Carribean with its eye on Florida. Here in Maine, we’re feeling the...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food, Recipes
Summer is in the history books and tomato canning season is underway. Tomatoes are a fairly easy fruit to grow. You can grow them directly in the ground or in containers. My parents used to grow several different kinds. Picturing my mom in her “Daisy May” gardening...
by Lillian Lake | | Farms, Food
It’s a beautiful, sunny day with a cleansing breeze gracing the earth. The morning air was a bit heavy after a rainstorm, but it has cleared out nicely. This week I’ve been busy preparing several presentations on different aspects of food. The nice thing about...
by Lillian Lake | | Farms, Food
This may be one of the hardest columns I’ve ever written and maintained objectiveness. This week formal talks began in Washington, DC to renegotiate NAFTA. I wasn’t in favor of the original NAFTA agreement. My objection was it unfairly placed power in the hands of...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, GMO
This week we celebrated National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Wow! I remember loving ice cream sandwiches! What’s not to love? The tender, chocolate or vanilla cake holding in place vanilla ice cream is delicious, memorable. Do you have a particular way of eating them? I...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Spiritual
Last week was a tough week. However, much of the fracas with the week could have been spared had we slowed sooner by choice, rather than by necessity. One of the calamities was my coming down with “shingles.” It’s everything that has been said about it. I chose to go...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Locally Made
This week I took a trip down memory lane, compliments of a weekly Twitter chat, aptly called #NostlagiaChat. NostalgiaChat was the brainchild of Beki Winchel. Recently, she turned the reins over to Steve Case. When I can fit it in on Sunday evenings, it’s a great way...
by Lillian Lake | | Coffee, Food, Restaurant Reviews
It’s 6:30 am, and I’m at home on my back deck trying hard to not let Mother Nature distract me from my writing. A cup of coffee is at my side. The song of morning birds provides a backdrop for the tap, tap, tapping of my fingers as they strike the keyboard. I am...
