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"No matter who you are or where you live, you’ve almost certainly eaten something fermented. Humans have been processing food this way for at least 10,000 years in cuisines on every populated continent." https://www.popsci.com//s/different-fermented-foods-chart/

Today is the start of Real Bread Week (20 to 28 February) the annual, international celebration of delicious, nutritious, additive-free loaves. https://www.sustainweb.org/r/national_real_breadmaker_week/

If you haven't heard her before, she's a powerhouse. Worth a listen!

Wondering what to do with that BC Recovery Fund money that's intended to support local businesses? Michelle Rose Fishery is taking subscriptions for this summer's seafood shares. Southern VI subscribers get seafood from a sustainable family-owned fishery: https://michellerosecsf.com/

Something to look forward to!

"The presence of unnatural substances, including processed food, or environmental chemicals, such as dishwashing detergent, in the modern environment, as well as the absence of natural microbial exposure, play a role in disrupting [our internal food quality] control system" https://news.yale.edu//overactive-food-quality-control-sys

This is quite comforting really, easing back on some 'universal truths' around sleep and exercise! "If you tell somebody they're not getting enough sleep and they actually are getting enough sleep, you just make them stressed ... that elevates cortisol. Cortisol is the hormone that's about arousal. Cortisol prevents you from sleeping." https://www.npr.org//just-move-scientist-author-debunks-my

One way to share a delicious gift this Christmas!

From our local biodynamic farm and cafe (Duncan)!

As many of us have discovered... https://www.cnn.com//mason-jars-canning-lids-sh/index.html

".. simply offering cheap vegetables from a CSA is not enough. Nor is pummeling food-insecure folks with "education" about the "right" foods going to flip a switch. Very often that switch has long been flipped, but there are other barriers getting in the way." https://www.npr.org//secret-life-of-supermarkets-shines-a-

Good food going on in South Vancouver Island!

As in everything to do with human nutrition: It's Complicated, and It Depends! Here, researchers have found that cravings are not a reliable signal of nutritional deficiencies. "[one]paper argues that food cravings are caused by the ambivalence or tension between desiring a food and wanting to control food intake. It’s assumed, the paper states, that women in particular resolve this by not having the food in question which increases their chance of craving it as they’re more likely to notice cues." https://www.bbc.com//20190524-food-cravings-are-they-a-sig

One fruit, so many drug interactions. And quite a story! https://www.atlasobscura.com//grapefruit-history-and-drug-

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here's your Saturday and Sunday sorted: Ferment for Food Justice, October 10th & 11th - livestreamed talks on all kinds of ferments, from koji to tempeh to baking with sourdough discard. (More events on Oct 17 & 18) http://communitycultures.com/ferment-for-food-justice/