by Gigi | Feb 26, 2023 | FoodWISE
Especially when I’m travelling, including staying in Italy, my favorite food to order is spinach greens (even if they’ve been frozen)—with a little olive oil, salt, and cheese (my preference: my own parmesan)…and maybe some garlic, it’s a... by Gigi | Feb 8, 2023 | FoodWISE
One sure way to have fiber-packed “real” bread (actually, fermented) is to make your own. I write about this in my book, FoodWISE, and share how I used to make (and freeze) 20 small loaves a week. I’m back to making bread, and this time with...
by Gigi | Jan 10, 2023 | FoodWISE
Ace-student and food writer Ian Lewis has just published a story on Big Picture agroecology. You can find it here: https://www.theplanetmagazine.net/fall-22-sound/sounds-like-regrowth It addresses many of the questions in my book, FoodWISE—the same questions many of...
by Gigi | Jan 2, 2023 | FoodWISE
Branching out into monastery cheeses—with our sheep milk.* Besides the famous Bethlehem Cheese from the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut, there are a number of Trappist cheeses I am working on. this first experiment was a delight—aged with regular washings of...
by Gigi | Jan 2, 2023 | Dance
On the West Coast in fall, 2022, Pacific Northwest Ballet premiered a moving work by world renowned choreographer Alexei Ratmansky—Wartime Elegy. It is his first ballet since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Critics call it not so much a political ballet, as a tribute...