Brent and Marieke

“Pinch your nose and let the jelly bean sit on your tongue. What do you taste?” We kicked off our week with the physiology and psychology of taste. We talked about why and how we taste things and how to communicate flavor. Like jellybeans. You wouldn’t believe how...

One of the great things about Cook the Farm is the other people. We inherited a group of 10 people to plant seeds and bake bread with. Most nights, we cook in the convent kitchen together.  This is not a romantic kitchen. It’s erratically outfitted (including but not...

A girl waved at us before we realized we made it. We thought it might be a mistake, racking our brains for the pictures in our Cook the Farm class bios.Those friendly faces definitely recognized us. Brent and I met up with the rest of our CTF classmates on Wednesday...

Today is the day Brent and I fly to Sicily. We’ll spend 13 hours in the air, stop in four airports, and land in three countries. We can’t wait. We’ve been doing our assigned reading this week, from books about the cooking school, to the history of Sicily, and the...