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Friday Breads This Week<\/span><\/strong>
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\n\"\"<\/a><\/em>Kamut Levain –<\/strong> Kamut, also known as khorasan<\/em> wheat, is an ancient grain that has more protein than conventional wheat, and which some people find to be more digestible than wheat. The bread is made with a levain preferment mixed with with bread flour and fresh milled whole kamut flour. It has a nutty, rich flavor and makes a golden color loaf.\u00a0 – $5\/loaf<\/em><\/p>\n

Barley & Rye w\/ Pumpkin Seeds –<\/strong> Also made with a levain preferment mixed with bread flour and fresh milled rye, barley and whole wheat flours. Some buttermilk makes for a tender crumb, honey for sweetness and toasted pumpkin seeds add to the flavor and texture. A really flavorful artisan loaf! – $5\/loaf<\/em><\/p>\n

and this week’s pastry…<\/p>\n

Fruit & Spice Rolls –<\/strong> Almost half whole wheat but still plenty of butter, sugar and egg for flavor and a tender crumb. Dried cranberries, golden raisins, fresh orange peel and orange juice, plus anise, cinnamon, mace and cardamon add savory nuance. Topped with demerara<\/em><\/a> sugar before baking for a special bit of sweetness and crunch and an interesting and flavorful bun to have with your morning coffee or tea. – 2\/$5<\/p>\n

(breads must be pre-ordered by Wednesday for pickup here at the wine shop at our Friday wine tasting, 4-6pm. Planning a visit to the Island? Email us<\/a> to get on the mailing list!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wine Club
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\"\"<\/a>Okay, mis amigas and amigos,<\/em> we are now entering our SIXTEENTH YEAR of our community wine adventure with all of you! While our little business has never been much of a “business,” we find our success is best measured not in financial terms but in the friends we have made with you over all these years and the friends that have been made among you through our little wine shop. Over the years many dear friends have come and gone, but the community has remained intact. Every weekend brings old friends and new friends, good conversation, and an enduring warmth. We are deeply grateful for your participation in whatever it is that we have created here, and thank you all for being part of it.<\/p>\n

Which reminds us, it is again the start of another Calendar Year. Which means that your membership in our Wine Club must be renewed for 2020 to continue your club benefits of $5 tastings instead of $10 for nonmembers, and no sales tax (save 8.7%!) <\/em>on purchases. Yes, yes, we must be Crazy to offer this Benefit Package for a measly $50 for the entire year, but there it is, time to sign up for another year to enjoy our great community AND great savings!<\/p>\n

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Mar a Lago Update: Our Kampf
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The past week has felt like yet another Reichstag Moment<\/a> in our Long Ordeal with the Tweetster’s Madness. The Reichstag was the German Parliament building, set on fire in 1933 just one month after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. The fire was set by the Nazis and blamed on the Communists, and set the stage for the Nazis to declare an emergency, deny civil rights, and take dictatorial control of Germany. It has become symbolic of any misleading “false flag” political operations designed to gain power for one group while directing blame toward another.<\/p>\n

To paraphase Adolf Hitler<\/a> in Mein Kampf :<\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n

‘Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people and fix its intellectual level toward the least intellectual and awaken their imaginations through their feelings by finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest their attention and appeal. They are not diplomats or professors nor persons able to form reasoned judgment. Rather, they are but a vacillating crowd of children constantly wavering between one idea and another. Their character, thought, and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than reasoning, and neither their intellect nor their sentiment is\u00a0 differentiated enough to understand more than a childlike binary view of love and hate, right and wrong, truth and lie.<\/em>“<\/em>‘ [5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

This week saw a number of news threads which reinforce our understanding the Hitler’s point:<\/p>\n