A cook, A Gardener, A Potter
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Some people have one great passion. I seem to have three — and somewhere along the way I stopped trying to keep them separate. The garden grows the plants that become the glazes on my pots. The pots hold the food I cook from scratch, the soups and grains and slow things that fill a kitchen with smell and warmth. And the kitchen is where all of it lands, finally, in a bowl made by my own hands from the same earth I tend outside my door. I have been growing Illinois native plants in my Oak Park yard for years — goldenrod, wild bergamot, oak, prairie grasses — watching what comes to visit, tracking the insects and birds that depend on them through every season. You can follow that living record my iNaturalist project, Nature on North Lombard. Those same plants, at the end of their lives, become the ash that glazes every piece I make. |
