LINZER COOKIES
CHOCOLATE CHIP PECAN COOKIES
As previously mentioned, weather largely dictates daily farm activities. And it can change in an awful hurry. Yesterday was sunny with temperatures hovering around the lower 60's, but today it was blustery and snowy. So we were delegated to mostly indoor activities.
Jen took this opportunity to spend the afternoon baking cookies for everyone. She busted out a batch of chocolate chip pecan cookies in no time. Deciding making just one type of cookie was no fun, she whipped up some cherry and peach jelly filled star shaped linzer cookies. As expected, the moment Jen took them out of the oven, the desserts were devoured immediately and burned several very happy mouths.
With our free time, we have been trying to do some reading. Aaron is reading The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry with his thick and trusty blue dictionary at his side. It's the sort of book where you read passages, and scratch your head thinking "This depiction is 100% correct and the outlook is 100% catastrophic." He writes, "We can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture." To use his economic metaphor, by taking advantage of the land, agribusiness farmers live off the principle instead of off the interest. By polluting the environment, we destroy nature, and without nature, there can be no agriculture. Without agriculture, humans would spend all of their time hunting and foraging, leaving no time for culture and the arts. It's serious doom and gloom. Jen is reading a book by the Italian founder of the world wide Slow Food Movement, Carlo Petrini. Titled Terra Madre, it discusses the importance of Slow Food and local food. One point he argues for is if farmers are viewed again in society as highly respected, culturally aware professionals, instead of bumbling rural idiots, slow and local food can become achievable across all communities on all continents.
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