World Food Day

World Food Day “What is your favourite comfort food?  What were your school dinners like?  What was your first taste memory?  What’s it like to plant, grow, and eat your own food?”  Such were the questions buzzing around the group celebrating World Food Day (16th October). It was with relief and delight that I watched… Continue reading World Food Day

Drinks in the Street

On some evenings Jacqueline Kelm (The Joy of Appreciative Living) sits in her driveway with a drink, and greets passersby.  Niece Lorrie has chilli with her cul-de-sac neighbours every Hallowe’en night.  We have sudden street parties.  The last one was because our daughter Joy presented us with an anniversary bottle of sparkling pink fizz.  The… Continue reading Drinks in the Street

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Scrambled Egg People I sat in a chrome-and-fluroescent restaurant one day, munching through a flaccid bun- with-a-hole, stuffed with anemic bacon, waxy cheese, and a weary fried egg, the whole works euphemistically called a “Breakfast Bagel”. All the while I dreamed of scrambled eggs on toast. This in turn reminded of a crusty old saint… Continue reading foodthatbuildscommunity.com

Chocolate Cake

Because my Dad was a medical missionary, I spent some of my childhood in China.  Now and then, for sins unknown, my mother would condemn us to Purgatory. This would come in the form of being sentenced to visit some stranger somewhere else in the vast, unknown, confusing city of Canton because:  they too were… Continue reading Chocolate Cake