lummi island wine tasting jul 17 ’26
This week open Friday only, closed Saturday
another glorious morning…!
another glorious morning…!
Friday Bread This Week
Kamut Levain – Kamut, also known as khorasan wheat, is an ancient grain with more protein than conventional wheat and more digestible for some. Starts with a levain, fermented overnight before being mixed with with bread flour and whole kamut flour for a nutty, rich flavor. – $5/loaf
Rye w/ Currants, Pumpkin Seeds & Cracked Coriander – Made with a rye starter and mixed w/ bread flour and freshly milled rye flour, some molasses, malt syrup, pumpkin seeds, currants and cracked coriander seed. – $5/loaf
and pastry this week:
Morning Buns – Made popular by Tartine Bakery in San Francisco using the same laminated dough as croissants. Dough is rolled out, spread with a filling of brown sugar, orange zest, butter and cinnamon, rolled up, and sliced before baking. – 2/$5
This week’s wine tasting flight
Cannonball Chardonnay ’22 Calif $16
Nose of pear, pineapple, citrus, and stone fruit; medium bodied, smooth palate; polished style with hints of oak; partial malolactic fermentation and lees-stirring adds a pleasing rounded texture.
Angeline Cab Sauv ’24 California $16
Fruit-forward with aromas of lush cherry, cassis, rich cherry, and plum flavors with hints of vanilla and soft oak that over-deliver for the modest price.
Chakana Estate Selection Malbec ’20 Argentina $25
Opaque, bright purple in color; pleasing nose of plums and ‘spicy attic dust’ (?) ; full-bodied palate of plums and spice with good length, balanced acidity, soft tannins, and lingering finish.
Economics of the Heart: Big Carbon Still Claims Climate Change Isn’t Real
Lummi Island reefnet fishery
Everybody knows that the accelerating Global Warming over the last 50 years is being caused primarily by the burning of “fossil fuels” formed in the Earth’s crust over millions of years from the bodies of carbon based life forms.
Beginning in Britain around 1760, human beings figured out that that the potential energy available from burning coal offered enormous potential for generating energy to drive production, transportation, heating, cooling…the foundation of the global Industrial Revolution. Very quickly human society evolved from an agrarian and craft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing, mass production factories, assembly lines, and capital-based economies which concentrated wealth into the hands of a burgeoning population of “Capitalists.”
In a certain sense the Industrial Revolution was not that big a change from the long-standing feudalism in Britain and Europe, in which wealth was already concentrated among titled landowners and hereditary royalty. Workers learned trade skills, apprenticed, and found employment where possible. The long-term effect would be to concentrate wealth even further, not just with Royalty, but also with the emerging capitalist class, which developed their own sense of entitlement getting their indoctrinating MBA’s.
Fast forward to today’s United States, and we see the emergence of a far more virulent attachment to wealth formation by a relatively tiny handful of already very, very, very, very rich men. Most, if not all, are multi-billionaires who engage in some forms of political philanthropy. In 1982 the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans was $92 billion; in 2025 it was $6.6 trillion, an enormous increase concentrated in a very small group of individuals who as nearly as we can tell, spend a large % of it buying politicians to help them make it even bigger.
At the present moment the Tweetster is selling our country bit by bit to our enemies, moving full speed ahead to accelerate global warming, selling the White House piece by piece, creating conditions for millions of deaths and vast suffering across the world, and of course littering the World with tasteless testaments to his bottomless vanity.
Global warming is the greatest threat to life on Earth in millions of years. It has been deliberately ignored by Energy CEO’s for 40 years, making climate change, habitat loss, storms, tornadoes, floods, sea level rise, droughts, and wildfires more frequent and deadly across the world. The living world is struggling to survive, and yet the carbon-mining oil execs keep lying and making it worse.
There are direct lines connecting Republicans to favors for oil execs and selling out the long-term survivability of our planet not just for human beings but for entire networks of interdependent life forms that keep it all functioning.
One is moved to ask, WTF are these silent Republicans in Congress thinking as they look down at their fingernails as the stupidest President and Cabinet the nation has ever seen continue their looting, lying, and lunacy? Is that some kind of “loyalty?” with some imagined “benefit?” Are they all on drugs? Under threat of violence to themselves or family?
As I have probably pointed out here at some point, in summer of 1980 I had a 10-week summer fellowship at Battelle Labs in Richland, WA. Their Economics lab had a major grant from Dept of Energy to look at the economic impacts of possible global warming from a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. My piece of that was to explore the potential economic impacts on global fisheries (my PhD major).
There had been several independent studies funded by DOE. They were very sophisticated, with carefully gathered data and analysis of likely effects on atmosphere, winds, rainfall, habitat, food supplies, ecosystem integrity. My paper was later published in Natural Resources Journal at the University of New Mexico a year or so later. At some point it was discovered by a radio station in Toronto (fisheries are a major element in the Canadian economy), which interviewed me online. At close of the interview, when asked about what I thought might happen, I remember musing that, giant energy producers being what they were, they would likely drag their feet. Skeptical, yes, but I never for a moment imagined that the industry would make excuses and do NOTHING for the next 40 years!
So yes, climate change is a Big, Real Deal, and the evidence even 50 years ago in those studies was careful, thorough, and convincing. It was important that action be taken quickly because habitat, food supply, spawning, reproduction, and survival of marine fish are dependent on particular ranges of temperature, salinity, food availability, and successful spawning, all of which would be threatened by global warming.
It is the Big Oil lobby that has kept lying all these years, downplaying the existential dangers of global warming even as fossil fuel production and use continued to grow, until we are so far into it there may be no return.
What kind of people DO s*#t like that??!!
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