lummi island wine tasting oct 14-15 ’22
Hours this weekend: 4-6pm both Friday and Saturday
Voluntary Covid protocols remain in place while the weather permits outside seating. Please use discretion and kindness in protecting your own safety and that of others, thanks!
Friday Bread Pickup This Week 4-5:30 pm
Pain au Levain – Made with a nice mix of bread flour and freshly milled whole wheat and rye flours. After building the sourdough and mixing the final dough it gets a long cool overnight ferment in the refrigerator. This really allows the flavor to develop in this bread. – $5/loaf
Cinnamon Raisin – Fermented overnight with a poolish of bread and rye flours before mixing with freshly milled whole wheat and rolled oats. Some honey for sweetness, a little milk for a tender crumb and loaded with raisins and a healthy dose of cinnamon. The cinnamon is mixed into the dough and flavors the entire bread for a hearty rustic loaf. – $5/loaf
and mmm, pastry this week…
Individual Cinnamon Rolls –Made with a rich sweet roll dough full of eggs, butter and sugar. The dough is rolled out, spread with pastry cream and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Then rolled up and sliced into individual rolls for baking. And boy are they delicious! – 2/$5.
To get on the bread order list, click on the “Contact Us” link above and fill out the form. Each week’s bread menu is sent to the list each Sunday, for ordering by Tuesday, for pickup on Friday. Simple, right..? If you will be visiting the island and would like to order bread for your visit, at least a week’s notice is recommended for pickup the following Friday.
Wines of the Week: Selections from Small Vineyards
Once or twice a year we attend a sit-down tasting for the next SV shipments about six months later. Last spring’s order has arrived and we are pouring three selections this weekend. Member wineries are generally small, family-owned operations in Italy with deep, multi-generational roots in their vineyards, and their wines typically over-deliver for their generally modest price points. Read more about Small Vineyards.
Batasiolo Gavi ’20 Italy
Cortese grapes from limestone, clay and marl soils are destemmed and soft pressed; clear, bright, straw yellow with green tinges, fresh floral aromas, dry and fresh on the palate with lingering, characteristic notes of almonds.
Tre Donne D’Arc Langhe Rosso ’18 Italy $20
Blend of oak-aged Barbera, and Pinot Nero with unoaked Dolcetto and Freisa that makes for a lively, fresh wine with rich, moody fruit, bracing purity, and fascinating depth.
Tre Donne Langhe Nebbiolo
Deep and dark, with nose of red berries, tobacco and chocolate, typical tannic structure, and elegant balsamic notes, well-balanced and soft, pairing well with well-seasoned meats and sauces.
Economics of the Heart: The Case Against the Tweetster
image courtesy of https://www.rottentomatoes.com
Back in the mid-fifties, on many Saturday afternoons, a bunch the kids 0n our street would walk downtown (about a mile) to one of the three old theaters that showed Saturday matinees. Typical fare would include some combination of previews of coming films, a cartoon, a newsreel, maybe a serial episode, and a movie (often a Western!)
One summer for several weeks there was a lengthy preview hyping High Noon, a Western starring big-name actor Gary Cooper. The preview was dripping with tension about an approaching Showdown between Cooper and the Bad Guy. The theme song was “Do not forsake me, oh my Darling.” So of course when it came to the theater our little neighborhood of fourth-graders trudged down to see it.
Well…while there was definitely tension, it lasted so unbearably long and repetitively (Cooper walking down empty street…clock ticking…Cooper walking down empty street…clock ticking…Cooper walking down empty street…clock ticking, etc., etc.) After all that walking down empty streets in the noonday sun, the final showdown didn’t amount to much.
Today we listened to the last live hearing of the House January 6 Committee as it laid out chapter and verse of not only how the Tweetster planned, staged, directed, caused, encouraged, and executed not just the January 6 insurrection to overturn the 2020 election result, but also directed the entire plan beginning many months before the election. At the end of the session the panel voted unanimously invite the Tweetster to meet with them to discuss his role in directing the effort to overturn the election.
In an ordinary world, the hearing would have closed with a video of the Tweetster being arrested and hauled away to jail pending trial. Clearly this has not been an ordinary world since about 2015. At the moment most of the Republican Party is demonstrably committed to overthrowing the Constitution of the United States, and it is up to everyone else to suit up and fight back. The future of this country and the entire planet depend on this nation’s will and ability to remove these conspirators from office and send them all to the brig for a very long time.
The revelations of the Jan 6 committee have revealed in granular detail the breadth and commitment of the conspiracy to do away with Constitutional government in our country. These facts, in addition to the shredding of the Constitution now underway by an ultra-right Supreme Court, underline that there is already a Civil War going on in our country, and the sad truth is we all need to take sides and, as their leader said, “fight like hell or we won’t have a country anymore.
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