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April 11, 2022
Owl Feather Farm, San Juan Island
A real fairytale
On it's way to the oven
It took three hours to roast the 2-pound one-sixth slices, another hour to process the flesh, two more hours to cook the soup. No tricks or shortcuts apply to pumpkin soup, unless you buy canned pumpkin at the grocery store, a despicable substance stripped of goodness by America’s industrial agriculture empire.
Not many people start with whole pumpkin when cooking; fewer still grow the entire pumpkins and store them. It’s simple enough, but like so much of modern life, simplicity is not the same as ease, and convenience wins a million times to one.
Our Fairytale was not a fairytale, but if you describe healthful living and the intention and commitment it requires to most people, they retreat from what they believe to be mythical. But some fairytales—maybe most—are choices, not myths.
-Eric Lucas
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