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Post by Bill on Feb 20, 2007 21:58:17 GMT -5
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Post by Ben on Feb 20, 2007 22:40:58 GMT -5
What is happening everyone?
Updates: Turned 30 Working at Google for three months now heading up Vegan and Vegetarian foods in their most popular cafe. Nice organic and sustainable concept, lots of cool big toys to play with and an unlimited food purchasing budget. I have been picking brains and learning a lot about rare food items. Courting a seasoned partner for an organic cafe for Saint Helena, Napa Valley. Right now we are at a stalemate on the look and feel. If all goes well it could happen quick. Learning how to make Kombucha. Got some new boots for an anticipated increase in outdoor adventures. Plans to start seriously hunting wild mushrooms. Gabe the boy is riding a bike (with the training wheels) and digging on his train sets. My wife Denise is doing well. Half way out of the catering company close train wreck. Learning to relax more and more and more. Playing the best guitar I have since 2002.
Hope you are all well. Peace and Blessings,
Ben
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Post by chriscank on Feb 21, 2007 2:35:04 GMT -5
Ben, I was thinking of you yesterday. I am very glad to here you are doing so well. Things are great on the East Coast. I am painting live music all of Philadelphia and falling in love with this infernal city. I will have to look you up, if things go well, VORCAN will be making a cross country tour this Spring. We will definitely be heading to Cali to visit you and Bill and everyone else! Let me know if you ever need any paintings or graphic design work for any of your projects.
What is Kombucha? I feel like I have heard of it.
Chris
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Post by daves energy drink on Feb 21, 2007 17:23:15 GMT -5
it's a tea that brainwashed hippies like this guy dave (who distirbutes it in grocery stores) sells for 5+ for a 16 oz. bottle. dula makes it and it taste like shit.
supposedly it cures cancer
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Post by Bill on Feb 21, 2007 22:53:21 GMT -5
I configured the server so that you can upload files. Feedback would be much appriciated.
Kombucha is a drink made a type of mushroom and has some amazing health benefits.
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Post by ben1133779933117733 on Feb 23, 2007 0:21:39 GMT -5
Chris, Bill, and folks,
Kombucha or "booch" is a fermented mushroom beverage. Science debates if it is a mushroom at all. Science knows suprisingly little about mushrooms. Many shrooms act more like animals metabolically. In the forest they transform the dead into the living. They also act intelligently, can solve mazes, and baffled the best of them when they found out spores can survive in a vacuum.
"Booch" when made right is a delicious beverage that gives a sweet warm fuzzy feeling for about 10 minutes after you drink it. This isn't from the resulting alcohol from the ferment process as many think. Booch is loaded with polyphenols, enzymes, and metabolic boosters. Yes, very effective for someone who is looking to supplement their cancer regimine.
You brew black tea, or green, experiment as you wish but it needs caffine to feed off of. You add sugar, another fuel for the reaction. Insert healthy Kombucha culture after mixture cools. Let it sit for about five days and voila! You have booch. Add flavoring like ginger juice, fruit juice, etc. A good plain batch will taste a little like stale beer. Hence the need to flavor the brew. All the caffine and sugar is consumed in the reaction.
Fermented foods are crucial to just about every non industrial food culture. Our's used to be before industrial corn. Industrial corn tranformed the face of food as we know it. Read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and find out how we are all pretty much walking corn chips...and how sustainable food practices are changing that.
Tofu consumed without a fermented food such as Tamari, Miso, or Shoyu (real soy sauce) leaves the protein apsorbtion inhibitor tryptisin intact. It just so happens that in traditional Asian cuisine that all soy is fermented or served traditionally with a fermented sauce etc. Hence, tofu alone really isn't all that good for you.
Historically speaking, the healthiest, most long lived cultures to ever grace the face of the earth have always been primarily grass fed red meat eaters who consumed a wealth of fermented foods. 25% of our bodies immune system relies on the substances created by and the proper functioning of the bacterial cultures that exist in our large intestines. A healthily cultured large intestine will have the same baterial cultures as these fermented foods. Go figure.
Much like the cow owes it's digestion to the rumens in it's 1st stomach, we too seem to be a bit dependent on some little critters to keep us alive.
So, look how big we are when in fact we can't even survive without the help of a tiny little bacterium.
Best,
Ben
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Post by Hippie Logic on Feb 23, 2007 19:31:17 GMT -5
thats why fermented breads and beers where so valued and monitored by the monks in europe. But this "booch" is a bunch of boochshit. more whole foods scare tactics designed for you to spend money on things you don't need.
Don't think for a second that anyone who advocates a healthy lifestyle cares about you, they care about there bank accounts.
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Post by joe on Feb 24, 2007 6:18:00 GMT -5
Homebrew Booch is virtualy free. A few years ago our friend gave us a pitcher full, at the end of two weeks you break the mushroom/fungus in half and you can make two more pichters. I'm suprised you don't know about it, ask your Mom, it is an old farmer thing. Personaly I'd rather drink vinegar to stay healthy, but Jess liked it, and the family that turned us on to it say they haven't got sick in years.
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Post by DrCank on Feb 27, 2007 10:57:22 GMT -5
I tried to check out site progress, however as of <2.27.2007 1054> I got the old: The page cannot be displayed
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Post by Bill on Feb 27, 2007 13:24:28 GMT -5
Server's down will be back up in a little bit. Getting really close here gang.
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Post by Bill on Feb 28, 2007 2:48:50 GMT -5
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Post by SRB6S6S on Feb 28, 2007 3:24:00 GMT -5
Not very interesting.
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Post by Bill on Feb 28, 2007 4:16:05 GMT -5
how bout now?
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Post by DMZQ96H on Feb 28, 2007 5:30:41 GMT -5
So what's the deal? all the site info is right there in your house? On your own server?
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Post by DrCank on Feb 28, 2007 8:44:41 GMT -5
I am definately interested in the 'idea' of this drupal setup. But I fear that I am still not truly understanding what in offers that our conventional message board lacks.
Except it has an email newsletter, which could be a great thing but unfortunately IMHO will become simply a sales catalog of wikicank and Vorcan pariphanalia. I can find enough of that stuff on this board I don't need to find it in my personal email inbox
we really need to figure out a way of preforming a live demo of this drupal setup
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