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  • 13 vegetable soup

    In Which We Create A 13 Vegetable Soup

    Someone asked me for the recipe and I’m glad to share my method but you will notice that this is more a detailed guide than a traditional recipe. I do that because some basics (like many soups) are best learned…

  • My first book! The Gen-Xers, Millennials & Hipster Guide: . . . . . Sharing a Kitchen with Housemates

    http://blur.by/1DfRRIz Follow this link to purchase my book in softcover or PDF online.

  • Public Events, Private Values: Some Observations

    It is the annual autumn season of fairs and festivals. When I visit such events I notice a continuing set of issues that trouble me; issues that concern not only the event venders but should concern visitors as well. My…

  • Taking care of ourselves and each other: Self-reliance, sustainibility, and Andrew Zolli

      Around about Thanksgiving is pretty much when I close up the summer and early fall making/doing/storing food bustle. I’m getting ready to hunker down; you’d think I was a squirrel. South Dakota winters have a way of sticking in…

  • Despite the storms our garden and animals are sprouting and growing and laying

    The stormy events of the past several days have made the dog crazy!  Especially the lightning!  But the hens, the pigs and the garden seem to just continue doing what they do best; grow and lay eggs!     But…

  • Illness, Archaeology, and the Garden: an update

    Query: Is it an homage to the 18th century humeral notions of medicine (puke, purge, and scare the hell out of the illness) that liquid medicines are still being formulated to taste like rotten fruit mixed with pigeon shit and…

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Leni’s Indigo House

Dr. Leni Sorensen Phd

I cook, I teach, I garden, I feed animals. I write, I research, I lecture, I demonstrate. My passion is emphatically about food; food in early America, food in contemporary America, food among the urban poor, food from small sustainable farms, food cooked by novices, food cooked by chefs.

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