The story of an odd family told through the eyes of a young woman who can taste people’s emotions from the food they prepare. This kind of food mind reading is not fun and our hero tends to eat as many manufactured foodstuffs as she can. Machines have no bad feelings to impart on their food. Author Aimee Bender just drops us into the story and lets us discover along with the young woman what it is like to taste her mother’s sadness and the baker’s anger and the harvester’s disgruntlement. But the girl who can taste people is not…
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The First Day of The Rest of Your Life
A while back I read The UltraMind Solution, a book that talks about how living in the modern world is a bad thing. There is a free Ultramind Solution Companion Guide and I have decided to give it a try. This is a pretty serious investment in time and effort as well as money. The Wife looked at a few of the recipes in the guide and as ask if I was really going to cook all this stuff. That is the plan. For the next six weeks I will be eating more whole foods and not eating any wheat,…