East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Kazakh Lamb Is a Symbol of Life and Death
All the building materials for this little palace are local, simply dug up or cut down in cop-is woods that will soon grow back again. Just across the garden from the summer kitchen is the sauna, another half-carb half wooden shed heated by a wood stove with a water tank perched above it. At the head of the table I saw calves the head, deftly dissecting and sharing out the various symbolic organs. We now add to our plate's portions of a kind of pasta to make bech bar mac, which roughly translates as five fingers because the dish is traditionally eaten by hand.
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