Reading List on the Net {02.17.15}

I have a goals list that I started back in 2013. On that list is "make cheese". I had forgotten that one until an email from Cultures for Health said "Let us help you make cheese!" I'm thinking about making Lemon Cheese (because it is easy, honestly) but also reading why it's good to make your own cheese. My hubby has made soft cheeses before but no hard cheese. I'd like to make hard and soft cheese eventually. I think I'll need to watch some YouTube videos to get the hang of it first. And it will need to be next month.

Why make cheese? 

1. It's a rare skill. Making your own cheese is the culinary equivalent of building a log cabin. There just aren't that many people who know how to do it anymore. A homemade cheese will always be a hit at a potluck or party.

7. It's delicious! No matter what kind of cheese you make, your homemade cheese will be edible.

~Cultures for Health

It's also 'food' related...well, sorta. The Two-Wine Theory. Gosh, I just love how Headmistress writes (and I can never remember her name...must be what it's like for my online/i-r-l friends *wink*). Every so often our Pastor covers the 'two wines' of the Bible. His take, and many others', is that any time it is wine, it's either juice or it is so low in alcohol content that it is barely wine.

"One interesting thing to me is that when I have shared this background information [of the essays by Grindrod and Parsons, and book by Patton] with people who still believe in the two-wine theory, they always hasten to assure me that they reached their two-wine theory entirely independently, studying out the issue for themselves without relying on any outside study, just the Bible. The reason they believe that wine in the Bible is mostly nonalcoholic is entirely uninfluenced by Patton or the Temperance Movement. This is, frankly, impossible. They sincerely believe in the independence of their research. They may well be ignorant of America's temperance movement and have never heard of Patton or the articles he relied on, and so they think this proves that their conclusions were clear of such outside influences."

She goes on to tell how she can tell that their 'independent' research has indeed been influenced by these two theories.

Not chosen in connection with the previous at all but true nonetheless: "The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinion of any man." ~R. A. Torrey (and some day I'll see who that is)

This isn't something I read online but it can be read online that's why I'm including it here. It is the latest issue of Imprimis: Race Relations and Law Enforcement. We get this every month (once a month?) and I try to read the short (ish) article featured but don't always manage. This month my kids, who do not attempt to read the Imprimis when it arrives, read it and my son especially insisted I read it. So I did finally. Quite well written.

"I was visiting my older sister shortly after I had begun working at the Wall Street Journal, and I was chatting with her daughter, my niece, who was maybe in the second grade at the time. I was asking her about school, her favorite subjects, that sort of thing, when she stopped me and said, "Uncle Jason, why you talk white?" Then she turned to her little friend who was there and said, "Don't my uncle sound white? Why he tryin' to sound so smart?"
She was just teasing me, of course. I smiled and they enjoyed a little chuckle at my expense. But what she said stayed with me. I couldn't help thinking: Here were two young black girls, seven or eight years old, already linking speech patterns to race and intelligence. They already had a rather sophisticated awareness that, as blacks, white-sounding speech was not only to be avoided in their own speech but mocked in the speech of others.
[A] big part of the problem is a black subculture that rejects attitudes and behaviors that are conducive to academic success...Another big part of the problem is a reluctance to speak honestly about these cultural shortcomings...If you disagree and are white, you're a bigot. If you disagree and are black, you're a sell-out."