Astrological Cookery - Welcome
By Judith Martin
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We all want to be healthy and
happy, but sometimes those two ideas seem to be headed in different directions.
So, how can you reconcile your desire for a long life with your desire for a
good time? Consider the notion of cooking in an astrological mode.
My own circles are filled with every
variety of eater, vegans and vegetarians and carnivores and serious gourmands.
Just the same way that life is populated with Capricorns, Libras and Pisces.
Consider a horoscope for your sun sign to be like your own personal weather. It
could be a great day to walk on the beach, or a perfect morning to sleep late.
So cooking astrologically is just that; a way to feed yourself exactly what you
need.
I was presented with this idea by
a ghost, or rather, a mutual friend. When the ghost first passed on, (some
speculate that her demise was due to a chronic dissatisfaction with the way the
world is being run-) she gave a friend the duty of sorting through her
belongings and finding them good homes.
When the executor of the estate found
a collection of notes about cooking and astrology, she passed them on to me. I
do love to cook, but at the time, I really knew nothing about astrology. So I
did some research of my own, and discovered that astrology does, theoretically,
hold water. There might be a leak here and there, but all the questions
I’d had in my mind about how it might work were answered quite nicely.
When I checked with the ghost, on her opinion, she harrumphed a terse “Of
course it does!” and gave me her blessing to proceed.
While her recipes were impressive,
they were also dated – about the early 1960’s, I’d say. The
kind of very rich, complicated dishes that reminded me of James Beard and Craig
Claibourne. The sort of cooking that assumes you have all the time in the world,
no concerns over your weight or cholesterol, and someone else cleaning the
kitchen when you’re finished.
As
my sun sign is Scorpio, it seems to be a part of my nature that I just love to
change things- We Scorpions consider this to be “improving” and feel
that you should all be as pleased as we are with the end results. So, I checked
my horoscope, for good luck, you know, just to be sure this was really the best
time for all this, and decided to
start.
August is Leo-
Posted: Tue - August 1, 2006 at 08:37 AM