Thanks Leo!
I’m starting to get a feel of these combinations..
I’m getting over the habit I acquired during the ‘raw food diet’ season, which is the “mono-meal”, making a meal out of a single thing. I guess it can be a disaster, considering the different nature of things and one’s current health state.
I’m very happy to re-discover ginger.. it gives me new perspectives in matching ingredients.
Yesterday I did one experiment.. the only dairy product I consume, and I do it occasionally, is plain yogurt. I know it is rather cool, but I wanted to have some..
So I did a kind of syrup to go with it, I boiled raw sugar cane syrup with ginger and a little bit of water to go with the yogurt, and it tasted delicious. I’m not sure if this was 100% ok, but I guess it is much better than having the plain yogurt by itself, as I used to have.
I may be in the food basket of the world, but our culture is so fragmented, and the food culture suffers a lot from this, specially in the big cities (the ‘poor’ regions seem to have a richer native food culture, as this is cheaper than any industrialized food).
Some people may be lucky enough to get some tradition from their families, but for many of us, we can hardly say we have a food culture, in the sense that there’s not a bigger whole, integrating the elements (more like a ‘zoo’ than an ‘ecosystem’, a collection of pieces of different things that do not create a picture when sewed together)
Our cultural mirror has been shattered in hundreds of pieces. This is what some may call “post-modernity”, but I guess it’s symptoms are worse in some places (specially those suffering from the consequences of colonization).
Brazil is such a young country (merely 500 years!)… TCM alone is over 2000 years! So culturally, we are babies… our aboriginal tradition was almost completely lost, and we have to deal with bits of information we inherited from all over the world. Some may use the word ‘freedom’ to characterize this absence of tradition. Maybe it is just an eufemism for ‘alienation’.
What good is having a treasure if you don’t know you have it, or don’t know how to make use of it? Well… maybe this is better than having nothing at all, but my tendency is to be a little skeptical on this matters.
I’m amazed with TCM, I notice that I’m getting results much faster than I expected. If I would rely on modern science I think I would just have to accept that “my genes are not very good”, or something like that. Besides getting me healthier, for me TCM raises many philosophical questions that contribute to my studies.
