lummi island wine tasting sept13-14 ’24
Hours, September 13-14 ’24
Friday 4-6 pm Saturday 3-5 pm
the essentials of island life
Friday Bread This Week
Levain w/ Dried Cherries and Pecans – From an overnight levain starter that allows the fermentation and gluten to start developing. The final dough adds bread flour and fresh milled whole wheat with dried cherries and toasted pecans. A nice rustic loaf that goes well with meats and cheese – $5/loaf
Pan de Cioccolate – A delicious chocolate artisan bread made a rich chocolate bread made with a levain, bread flour, fresh milled rye flour, honey for sweetness, vanilla, and plenty of dark chocolate. Makes fabulous Fench toast. – $5/loaf
Black Sesame & Candied Lemon Brioche: A delicious brioche dough full of eggs, butter and sugar. Filled with fresh lemon zest and candied lemon and as if that wasn’t enough, topped with a black sesame streusel before baking. Ooh la la, what’s not to like. I can only make a limited number so be sure to get your order in early. – 2/$5.
Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday the Bakery emails the week’s bread offering to the mailing list. Orders received before 5 pm Tuesday (and not already claimed) will be available for pickup at the wine shop Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Contact us at least two weeks before your visit to get on the bread list .
This week’s Wine Tasting
Hecht& Bannier Piquepoul Blanc Chardonnay ’23 France $14
Piquepoul blanc brings bright mineral tang and the Chardonnay brings orange and lemon, honeysuckle and acacia notes for a refreshing sensory lift.
La Atalaya del Camino ’20 Spain $15
Intense aromas, fruit, and elegance on the nose with a distinct spiciness and a touch of floral notes. Rich and meaty structure, with rich dark fruits and hints of spice. Smooth and pleasant long finish.
Bold Wine Cabernet ’21 Paso Robles $26
Co-fermented cab-malbec-petit verdot; carefully hand-harvested, sorted, and destemmed, 6-day cold-soaked, and native yeast fermented in stainless, followed by extended maceration for big flavors & lingering palate.
Economics of the Heart: Time for a Paradigm Shift
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We current old-timers were babies in the late forties, kids in the fifties, teenagers in the early sixties, and voters by the late sixties. By the time we were voters, the world had rebuilt and reorganized after the horrors and destruction of WWII. Nations changed names, boundaries, politics, and allegiances. I turned 7 as Ike was winning the 1952 Presidential election, and turned 15 as JFK won in 1960. Ike had cast for us kids of the fifties a reasoned, stable sense of special good fortune to be Americans, and Kennedy brought a youthful “vigah” that charmed our world with a sense of peace and promise right alongside an ongoing anxiety of a surprise nuclear attack.
The Cold War began soon after the surrenders of Germany and Japan to the Allies, which included the US, Russia, Britain, and Western Europe, among others. Stalin’s emergent Soviet Union promptly asserted control over Eastern Europe (in which it played a substantial role in liberating), as its necessary buffer against future German aggression. The US, western Europe, and Britain deferred to Stalin’s concerns, resulting in the “Iron Curtain” that gave control of Eastern Europe and East Berlin to the emerging USSR.
The Cold War brought air raid drills in schools, hunching under our desks for “shelter,” and little books with images of Russian bombers so, we imagined, we could sound some kind of alarm. (I am not making this up!) There was an Air Force B-52 base in my town in Maine, with familiar sounds of their engines revving on winter nights, ever on alert to launch at a moment’s notice. (Which is why “Dr. Strangelove” had such resonance with our generation…the Cold War was always lurking in the background.)
The Sixties saw deepening divisions in American politics. Even into the 70’s there were liberals and conservatives in both parties. But ending segregation drove Southern Democrats to the Republican Party along with the Birchers, the KKK-ers, and the emerging class of country-neutral Corporatists started a new movement at the Heritage Foundation to steer federal money to the private sector in more creative ways. In Reagan they found the perfect spokesman/salesman for White Corporate Entitlement. They invented subtly racist Reaganism with thousands of ready-to-vote-on legislative bills (the original Project 2025) they had already written before he became the candidate, and were passed on his watch.
www.cnn.com
In the late 80’s Reagan’s FCC removed the requirement that news broadcasts gave air time to all sides of a controversy. Within months, beginning with Limbaugh and followed by countless other radio talk shows, the airwaves were full of nonstop slander of the Clintons and the vile ego-bluster of Newt Gingrich in the 90’s. Fake News was made into a political weapon that still runs 24/7 on social media and talk radio as well as Fox and others. Don’t forget the 2000 election and Dubya “winning” by 500 votes, looking the other way when 911 happened, and invading Iraq and Afghanistan with a death toll so far of some 500,000 people in some 20 years. These proxy wars have long been the servants of industrial interests as a means to shift wealth to the top and costs to the bottom with ruthless efficiency.
The Republican marriage to Corporatism and its concentration of wealth into the hands of a small number of white billionaires, with everyone else barely getting by at subsistence levels, is pretty much just what Marx predicted about capitalism and why it is essential fairness for the productivity of the means of production (“the return to capital”) to be owned collectively. So right now, in this little moment in World History, we Americans stand at the edge of a Paradigm Shift. Should everyone have a path to getting ahead, or only rich white guys with Bibles?
The last Paradigm Shift started in the late 70’s with a concerted attempt by an elite group of very wealthy private organizations (Heritage) and individuals to take control of the United States military, technical, organizational, and financial resources and use them to concentrate their own power. In 1980 Reagan was their guy. In 2016 the Tweetster was Their Guy. He himself is meaningless to them, but his ability to con people into believing things that are not true offers these back-room players cover and distraction from what they are really up to. They came within a hair’s breadth of stealing the 2020 election and they are all in to try it again this year with Project 2025.
www.npr.org
The rest of us want to preserve this country, its Constitution, and the Rule of Law which gives all of us both rights and responsibilities. This election is a Decision Point on whether to keep or discard our Constitution and the America it has made possible. Voting for Harris is voting for the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Voting for the Tweetster or not voting at all is to bestow Enormous Wealth on a very few, modest wealth on an emergent class of Overseers, and misery and persecution for the masses. Chaos. A particular kind of Hell.
“When we vote, we win!”
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