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Fifteen days of Fasting

Posted on June 20, 2011 by ZihGarden

This weekend I decided to end my juice fast. I was fifteen days into it and feeling good. I decided that I’d had a good spring cleansing; the minor allergic reactions that I was having had subsided, my skin and tongue were clear. And I felt really ready to eat! Continue Reading →

Seaweed Power

Posted on June 12, 2011 by ZihGarden

Last Saturday we took a stroll through the Zihuatanejo market to pick up a few things we needed. My favorite part of the market is the area out back, along Calle Mangos, where the local vendors tend to hang out selling their produce. Walking along the crowded sidewalk we came Continue Reading →

Potato Miso Soup

Posted on January 11, 2011 by ZihGarden

When I was a kid I hated potato soup. My Czech grandmother, rosy-cheeked and rotund, with her sparse, gray hair pulled back into a neat bun, any unruly wisps reined in by a near-to-invisible hair net, and with tiny ruby-red earrings studding her earlobes, used to make it for me Continue Reading →