A while ago, I attended a bread baking workshop lead by baker Vitold Krueger at the Village Market. Listening to Vitold on his philosophy and practice of baking, the class for me was more a lesson in spirituality and wisdom than baking. Freshly baked organic bread and bagels just happened to be an end product of the class.
Vitold talked to us about the grains, stone grinding and the subtle spiritual energy that goes into the kneading and baking. He talked to us about the vitality of the food we eat...that the grains, fruits, nuts, vegetables are all living entities. The high heat of processing, distances that our food travels, our acts of repeatedly heating and freezing simply kills it.
Ultimately our diet is just "dead food" that has to be enriched (with supplements). All it provides us is empty calories and more chemicals in our bodies. Eating real food nourishes the body and the soul! Real food is also medicine when it retains all of its vitality.
Vitold talked to us about the grains, stone grinding and the subtle spiritual energy that goes into the kneading and baking. He talked to us about the vitality of the food we eat...that the grains, fruits, nuts, vegetables are all living entities. The high heat of processing, distances that our food travels, our acts of repeatedly heating and freezing simply kills it.
Ultimately our diet is just "dead food" that has to be enriched (with supplements). All it provides us is empty calories and more chemicals in our bodies. Eating real food nourishes the body and the soul! Real food is also medicine when it retains all of its vitality.
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