Foot and Fire

A healthy gut is the foundation of good health. If one has a healthy gut, one can absorb vitamin and minerals and utilize them to fuel the body. Conversely, an unhealthy gut cause domino effect on health causing one issue and leading to another. Of course, many researches show us that sugar and seed oils cause inflammation while fibers from vegetables and fruits can keep us from glucose spikes. Meanwhile, fermented vegetables are twin armors which can give us fiber and healthy bacteria in our gut.  Lacto-fermentation is easy to make at home and can be done to a lot of vegetables. I live sauerkraut because of its mild tangy taste, I love kimchi because of its spiciness that gives a kick to meals and carrots are wobderful when they're slender as compared to bulky ones favored for cooking as they're peeled in one go for being large or extra large. Of course, one can use the large ones to ferment. Slender ones are tasty and one carrot is one serving of side dish for me.

Extremely loud & incredibly close By Jonathan Safran Foer 2005, 326 pages This book has to be read in paper form, not ereaders, so that justice can be given to its form. The book is peppered with photographs, inserted letters & calling card, one-sentence pages, codes and many more with the grand exit of flip pages at the end. There is sadness all throughout the journey of Oskar who has a mission to accomplish which he believed to have been left by his father who suddenly died in 9/11. But Oskar is a 9 year old who knows a lot of things and invented many made us smile with his innocent antics and childlike ideas and expressions.  While looking for the lock of the key for eight months, Oskar unlocked many faces along the way, strangers and kin alike. He also made friends with some. Oskar also uncovered an important past in the life of his father too which will be important to his future. LAST WORD: As for the message to the world, war and violence make orphans of us a