okay, perfect #16: Winter Fire Cider

And our first days in the new restaurant

FRIENDLY REMINDER! The first substack subscriber ONLY cooking class is on February 11th at Noon Eastern time. It’s called Mimosa’s with Makenna, this is for super supporter members only.

Something you may likely not know about me is that I am a trained community herbalist. You may file this into the long list of ‘careers I trained for in earnest but never actually finished’. For a long time that was my way of being…Start a hobby, build a pseudo career, and escape it to find something new.

I’m sure this might appear wishy-washy but it was simply a part of my everyday way of being and–I’ve come to learn–my brain chemistry. What herbalism has in consort with buying La Peetch and building the Courageous Cooking School? A lot more than you might realise.

I found that so much of the work I enjoyed doing was in the deep care of humans. I find ardent joy in the care and nurturing of new thought patterns, offering new flavours and new points of view to the world through the work I do.

My career path may have been serpiginous–seeking solace and art in photography; building community programs for restaurants; managing big programs for financial companies; building non-profit community programs in rural Kenya; becoming a lecturer and adjunct professor for numerous colleges and universities in their International Relations and Business and Social Entrepreneurship programs; birth work where I doula-ed humans, creative projects, and businesses; and now…Whatever it is I do. (Which is somewhere between teaching cooking and teaching humans to expand what they thought was possible.)