Expand time

The art of peeling vegetables can be a process of time travel.

The clatter of Moules Marinières as you eat is one of the highlights of a dish that can transport you across time.

Don’t downsize too soon. Expanding your life rather than letting things go is a much better idea.

Make this recipe and expand your life.

Did you feel her presence as you opened the door this morning and walked outside, or did you miss her?

We can only experience the world through our senses, but if our senses are dulled then we are not really going to experience much of the world around us.

Practice learning to smell and enhance one of our most neglected senses.

The sense of smell is often taken for granted, and frequently relegated in favour of our vision or our babbling mind.

Try and see the same old things with new eyes, everyday. And for that matter, taste, touch, hear and smell things with a new tongue, fingers, ears and nose.

There are not enough celebrations in my opinion. We need more, far more to enrich our lives and encourage conversation and friendships. We can stick to traditions or just make them up. We can borrow from other cultures, and countries and even other times.

Eating with our hands is equated with bad manners. But why not make eating playful?

This interview is with a butcher, originally from Germany, who is based in a small indoor market in the UK.

Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, has a lesson for all of us.