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Christmas Is Remembered Through the Kitchen

Some things are worth the effort.
Christmas Is Remembered Through the Kitchen
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Mollie Engelhart
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Making special food for Christmas, Thanksgiving, or other meaningful moments of the year isn’t excessive. It isn’t indulgence. It’s connection. Cooking, touching, harvesting, chopping, stirring—these acts tether us to something older and more enduring than the materialism of the moment.

Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.