> 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



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