Things I've never tried before 2

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Things I've never tried before 2

Korean olive leaf tea (made from olive leaves harvested in Australia).

I found this in the pantry at work, where people leave stuff that they no longer want. It hurts my heart to see tea abandoned like this, so I took the orphan home to give it a try. This is loose-leaf tea, so there's no way to prepare it at work anyway. And lo and behold - I like it! It's a little on the bitter side so I can understand why most people won't enjoy it, but I for one don't like sweet or sweetened teas, so this is perfect. Plus it's supposed to have a bunch of health benefits, natural antibiotic properties etc - a total keeper!

3 comments:

The Speaking Goat said...: Hey!

I've been neglecting you - thought you'd stopped to be honest - but it's good to see you're back on form.

We are just about subsisting on cabbage (home grown cabbage though) - you're maddeningly maddeningly varied diet is maddening.

I guess this one might be for Ritesh. :-); February 5, 2009 at 9:28 AM
The Speaking Goat said...: Ahem. That last comment was supposed to have this link: - http://itsagoatslife.blogspot.com/2009/01/polemic.html - for Ritesh.; February 7, 2009 at 3:49 AM
Petra said...: Ah, ok, I was wondering what you meant...:) will relay your post to Ritesh. I for one totally agree with you, but have to say that compared to the American federal paranoia on this subject, no alcohol until 21 etc., your govt seems pretty benign...

thanks for checking back in!; February 7, 2009 at 7:21 PM

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Why bother? (Jan 2008)

First of all, this is NOT a diet blog. No calories counted, no kilos or pounds lost, no quantities of any kind.

My first motivation for this blog was MINDFULNESS: this is part of an overall attempt to be more present in my life, notice what I eat, stop mindless nibbling.
Then of course, there's CURIOSITY: if you are what you eat, what am I? What do I actually eat over a year?
Turns out, while I love food, I don't have a great memory for it. More often than not I have a hard time remembering what I ate yesterday, let alone a week ago. I can only imagine what I subsided on as an undergrad, or when I was living or traveling in odd corners of the world. Looking back, I wish I had some kind of record... So, the fight against FOOD AMNESIA as well as ANTICIPATED FUTURE AMUSEMENT definitely play a part.
Once I decided I would buckle down and do this, like all of two days ago, I started poking around on the web and of course stumbled over Tucker Shaw's endlessly fascinating work, from which I borrowed the title for this blog (Tucker, you're an inspiration!). Tucker also provided the ANTHROPOLOGICAL angle. While I'm less convinced than he is of the value that posterity will place on a record of the varieties of food enjoyed at this time of history on the glorious West Coast, I'm hoping that at least my bright and curious goddaughter in Germany will be intrigued to find out there's more to food in the US of A than McDonalds.

Everything I Ate - Japan

Saturday, January 31, 2009