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Alissa M. Goudswaard

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What Are You Going Through?

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2012: REVIEW Praying for Strangers River Jordon Berkley, 2011 $24.95. 336 pages. In "Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God," Simone Weil writes, "The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: 'What are you going through?' It is a recognition that the sufferer exists, not only as a unit in a collection, or a specimen from the social category labeled 'unfortunate,'…
Alissa M. Goudswaard
August 1, 2012
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Everything That Rises

Like penicillin, silly putty, and LSD, leavened bread was most likely discovered by accident. Most sources say the Egyptians were probably the first to experience it. Wild yeast from the air mixed with the grain-andwater dough mixture that constituted the first, cracker-like bread. Gluten and carbon dioxide by-products from this reaction formed bubbles in the elasticized dough, and voilà—a risen loaf. My own discovery of yeast breads bordered on accidental. My junior year of college I spent a semester in…
Alissa M. Goudswaard
December 1, 2011