> Believe it or not, I am still not automated and am filing cards. I'm out of > room.
Sure. Why not? I'm still living with shoe boxes. Note the plural: Shoe boxeS; we now use two thanks to the many ladies and gents on this list who have sent all sorts of invaluable material. The La Javura library is beginning to look a lot less like a swiss cheese and a lot more like a well-organized Red Cross Bake Sale. Some of you have asked (and not received a reply) about whether I was alive, dead or out of town. So to stop wagging tongues, on October 8, 2004, the guarentee on my pancreas went belly-up. Since then I've been dedicating my life to loosing weight and helping others face their diabetes head on as part of the Social Action program of La Javura. I have appeared on a couple of local t.v. programs and on one radio program to talk about how being a jewish vegetarian diabetic can turn you into a blythe jewish woodland nymph. The progress I have made has convinced many in the Asociacion Valenciana de Diabeticos nutrition class to come to my kosher ovo-lacto-fisho vegetarian kitchen to learn how to make tofu and gluten edible. I ask you: Is not Cooking the noblest art of them all? Food itself is the finest medicine there is. Cosher cooking by its very nature makes us think twice about the why we eat what we do which is fundamental for anyone who wishes to control their health (spiritual or physical). When push comes to shove what better way to underscore the adage: "Choose life over death"? Learning to love being diabetic is no small trick but then again learning to love being alive is no small trick either. Cosher Cooking helps you do both at the same time. Therefore, the La Javura library now offers 8 vegetarian cookbooks, 9 other cookbooks especially for diabetics and 14 cosher cookbooks (mostly israeli and mediterranean in spanish whenever possible). Plus Richard H. Schwartz's great classic "Judaism and Vegetarianism", isbn 1-930051-24-7. Happy Purim to All. In other years we have tied-on some major sugar-alcohol highs with a triple bow knot. This year the rest of the gang will continue to get all knotted up on kosher wine Made in Spain and middle eastern sweets made by the finest Algerian baker that has his shop just down the block from my apartment building. I, on the other hand, shall very happily eat nuts, dried fruit and ...maybe... one Orecchi di Aman (without the honey but with a lot of anise seed). Shabat shalom Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti "La Javura" Valencia (Espana) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
