Category Essays

Woman reading a recipe at a kitchen counter full of fruits and vegetables

Cooking

I enjoy reading books by Michael Pollan. While I don’t agree with everything he writes (such as the inadvisability of doing home canning) I do agree with much of what he concludes and writes. He also has an underlying wit…

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Preventing Botulism Poisoning

An unfortunate case of botulism poisoning occurred in Ohio in April 2015. Twenty-five confirmed cases resulted in 1 death and 12 people still in the hospital one week later. The health department traced it to potato salad, made with water-bath…

Man praying

Principles We Can Learn

Some things to think about from “4 Principles We Can Learn From the Way the Presiding Bishopric Works” by Sydney Walker “Bishop L. Todd Budge, Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, [stated]: ‘What I’ve found in my own life is…

Food production by fruit trees, canning, dehydrating, gardening

Food Availability During Non-food Rationing

The Smithsonian book American Table has a section on how history affected what we ate and now eat. In the article on “Women in World War II” it says: “Rationing of nonfood items also had an effect on the types…