Thanksgiving Coffee Company, in downtown historic Mendicino, CA, proudly displays a sign that reads: not just a cup, but a just cup. With a slogan like that, I had to venture in to find out what kind of just they were in search of. The first thing that caught my eye was a ‘no cell […]
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d’Origina: Labrador Tea of Quebec’s Boreal Forest
d’Origina, an organic herb company I discovered on a trip to Saguenay Fjord, Quebec, specializes in Labrador. Not the dog, but the medicinal herb growing wild in the boreal forests of Canada. Labrador was used by many First Nations tribes (akin to US Native American tribes) to treat stomach and skin ailments. It has also […]
Bedouin Principle: A Scarf for a Scarf, Instead of Eye for an Eye
Negev Desert, Israel – Tea time took on a whole new meaning for me as I waited for my Nana (mint) tea made by Mohammad, a Bedouin camel farmer, on the Noam Bamidbar Farm. I learned a valuable lesson Gandhi would have approved of. During my travels in Israel, I had vaguely heard about the […]