Crackers and tea-cakes made by hand.
For women in the midst of life.
Four crackers.
Two tea-cakes.
A paper journal to write down what you notice.
She did the work anyway.
Hildegard at her wax tablets. Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, Ms. 1942, c. 1220. Library of Congress.
Hildegard of Bingen, 1098–1179. Abbess, composer, writer, visionary. When the abbot refused to let her found her own house, she founded it anyway. She wrote to popes and an emperor and told them what she thought. She had a word for the green force in everything that grows — viriditas — and she spent her life paying attention to it.
I took her name, her greenness, and her nerve. Not her prescriptions. Nothing I make treats or cures anything. It is food, made with care, for a season of life that deserves better food than it usually gets.
Four crackers. That is the whole list.
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I · The Four Seedsons
Pepitas, Sunflower, Sesame, Flax
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II. The Savory Standard
The Four Seedsons mixes with toasted cumin, mustard and nigella seeds
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III · Pepita Flax Crisps
Pepitas, Flax
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IV · Cocoamom Flower Crisps
Cocoa nibs, Cardamom, Sesame, Sunflower
Two tea cookies.
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I · [Tea cookie name]
[three main ingredients]
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II · [Tea cookie name]
[three main ingredients]
A page a day. Yours, not mine.
A small paper journal comes with [every order]. One page a day for the month: what you ate, what you did, what you noticed. It stays in your kitchen. I never see it and I never ask for it.
If, at the end of a month, you want to tell me what you noticed, write to me. That is a conversation, not a form.