Sheila Shupe
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Locavore: Confessions of a Germophile
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, hands down. No presents to fret over, no costumes with weird facepaint to wash off, no fights over how many jelly beans a rational human should consume in one sitting. Just family. And food. And my love affair with the morning-after Thanksgiving sandwich. I go all the way with mine.…
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Confessions of a Germophile
I’ll tell it to you straight. The majority of food in my adolescence came from a plastic bag, cardboard box or drive-thru window. My health-conscious, home-ec teacher mother was pretty tuckered out raising her fourth and fifth child as a single mom, and like many of us these days, convenience became her priority in the…
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Confessions of a Germophile
Photos by Tammy Horton I confess, dear reader, that deep in the middle of this past wet gray January, constantly clad in galoshes and a rain jacket that never quite dried out, I dreamed a lot about Mexico. Hot dry beaches and warm water, cobbled streets and al pastor tacos, all called deeply to my…
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Locavore: Sheila Shupe Makes Preserved Lemons
Confessions of a Germophile: Sheila Shupe Makes Preserved Lemons Photos by Tammy Horton Lemon trees are the zucchini plant of fruit trees. You get so many lemons you have to freeze juice by the gallon, turn them to marmalade, give them to every member of your family (even the ones you don’t like), and you…
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Locavore: Eating Local, Cooking Local — “Confessions of a Germophile: Sheila Shupe Whips Up Some Shea Butter”
My mom always said, “never put anything in your vagina that you wouldn’t put in your mouth.” An OG feminist and sex ed teacher in the ‘70s, she was forced to wear skirts instead of pants to her first teaching gig to keep her ladylike. But by the ‘90s, Mom said pretty much whatever she…
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Eating Local, Cooking Local: Making Fire Cider with Sheila Shupe”
Confessions of a Germophile: Making Fire Cider with Sheila Shupe I’ll admit it, over the first nine months of the pandemic I drank enough booze to inebriate a small blue whale. When the world turned on its ear, my autonomic nervous system kicked in, spewing cortisol and adrenaline through my veins day and night. “Fight!” it…
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Locavore: Eating Local, Cooking Local — “Jalapeños en Escabeche with Sheila Shupe”
Confessions of a Germophile I’ll tell you a secret. I’m a native Californian and I didn’t eat a fish taco until I was 28. When I first met my husband, born in Southern California and reared on Mexican food, who would gladly take beans intravenously if it were possible, he was devastated by this oversight…
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Locavore: Eating Local, Cooking Local — “Making Strawberry Vinegar with Sheila Shupe”
I’ll be honest. When I see a kid take one bite of a juicy red strawberry, then chuck the rest, I want to google their value in Bitcoin and sell to the highest bidder. I go mad thinking of all the hours the farmer had her hands in the dirt, all the water that nurtured…
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Locavore: Eating Local, Cooking Local — “Confessions of a Germophile”
Making Garlic Sauerkraut with Sheila Shupe I’ll admit it. I’m a germ lover. I court the sour flavor and profusion of vitamins they add to veggies. Their complex names seduce me like foreign tropical isles: Coliform, Leuconostoc, Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus. I lust after a good rhamnosus. I rub them on my body and consume them whenever…
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Bulking
Towards a Plastic-Free Bathroom When I found out that China quit taking our recycling in 2018, and it’s now piling up on docks, in landfills and on unsuspecting island nations around the world, I went a little nuts (Netflix, Recycling Sham). I read Zero Waste blogs obsessively. I labeled jars and filled them at bulk…