I have loved every issues of Sift so far but this is my favorite. Love the sourdough recipes and the focus on spring cooking. But it was the article Life from Scratch written by Posie Harwood really hit home for me. While I don't live on a farm and never had, I am mechanical engineer who just retired from a long stressful career. It has been almost a year now and I love every moment. Many people I know can't understand why I retired so young and seemed worried about my life of "less busy, less intellectual and less challenging" to use the words in her story. They don't understand the joy I feel when I am in my kitchen making bread, putting up preserves or going to the garden to get the food for the next meal. I am living now a "hands-on-life". I will be using that saying now to folks that ask "why did you retire?".

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