vegetarian. sorta.
i’ve always known the following, but it didn’t really seem real and solid to me until we traipsed around india for a while: there is no way this planet can sustain 6 billion meat-eaters. we traveled through a lot of sparse and barren desert that was supporting teeming hordes of folks on a largely vegetarian [...]
cat
this relaxed cat was guarding the exit of one of the rajasthan forts.
bishnoi
we visited a bishnoi family compound while we were in rajasthan. these people lived near rohet. bishnoi call themselves the first environmentalists….so i fell in love with them immediately. you can read more about them here. we drove up in jeeps, to what seemed like the middle of nowhere….and there in the desert was this [...]
finally, new members!
the soaperstars have re-opened membership applications. if you are interested in joining our etsy team, please leave a note in the comments section of this post only…with your dish username and your etsy username, and a link to your etsy shop. there will be a democratic voting process and then someone will be in touch [...]
holy man at udaipur
this cheerful fellow had the most poshly-accented british accent i’ve ever heard!
making soap by hand
while we were in india, my mother manned our market table. one day, a customer got talking with her…told her how much he loved the soap…and then said : but they don’t really make it all by hand. *gasp* such slander! i am here to tell you we DO make it all by hand. every [...]
sadhu at varanasi
at kumbulgarh fort
obligatory taj mahal pix
the first image is of me contemplating the taj mahal just after the sun had risen. and the second is the taj mahal at sunset, seen from our balcony at the fabulous oberoi amarvilas. the taj mahal is everything you would imagine it to be and more. truly one of the most beautiful things i [...]
free herb magazine download
if you’d like a FREE copy of the essential herbal magazine, here’s the link. here’s a note from the editor, tina sams: In honor of the first day of spring and the White House putting in an herb and vegetable garden, we put up a new free issue – the one we did last year [...]
a childs hennaed hand in narlai, rajasthan
jodhpur
we are still having a simply amazing time….we’ve been to all sorts of remote little places in the desert where there is no internet access, hence the long silences. i am actually so dazzled and boggled and amazed and humbled and awed by india, that i don’t know where to start writing. it will take [...]
