Having a sourdough starter is like having a pet: you feed it every day, look after it, make sure it's warm enough and not sprouting unnatural growths... Of course, you do eat it eventually. But never all at once. So it doesn't really count as peticide. And cared-for ones can live for generations of human life. Don't you wish you could share pieces of your pet with your friends and still have a healthy creature to pass down to posterity?
I am expecting to make some very tasty sourdough bread by the end of the week. - sigh of happiness -
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"He gave me no assurance. No fixed land. Always one must throw oneself into the wave."
"Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? ... Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Prison Poems")
"He gave me no assurance. No fixed land. Always one must throw oneself into the wave."
"Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? ... Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Prison Poems")
This week I give God a cheer for:
parchment paper, chalkboard paint, free museum weekends, public transportation, online cultural resources, free apps to help you learn non-roman scripts, science experiments, cast iron dutch ovens, cast iron dutch oven lids which double as a skillets, power drills, gallery walls, taco nights with friends, vegetarian cookbooks, apples on sale, the way flowers brighten a room, new curtains, globes, Friday night outings, engineering paper, movie-makers not destroying my favorite book, movie-makers creating something beautiful based on my favorite book, theater pubs, Gutenberg, sunny-yet-freezing weather, new dishtowels, hand-thrown pottery, the golden ratio, secondhand stores, stained glass, and the word "kerfuffle," among other things.
2 comments:
My Great-Grandmother had a starter that is still in use today. She used it for something like 50 years then divided up between her girls. Crazy!
Enjoy your bread. :-)
Jamie, that's crazy! I didn't know starters could live so long.
Marybeth, I still think you should name the little creature. ;)
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