Last night, my brilliant wife and I were walking to the store, brainstorming ideas for the Saturday morning recipe. In a flash, the recipe’s name came to her: Illuminati Biscotti. Inside the store, we got the items off of our list, while brainstorming the special ingredient that would really be apropos to our recipe’s name. [...]

If you like homemade bread, and don’t already own Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, you should buy it. The method in the book is by far the easiest way to have fresh bread at your house on a daily basis short of sending your golem to fetch $6 loaves of delicious but overpriced [...]

Another name for alchemy is “the spagyric art”, a term that refers to the use of plant-based tinctures that alchemists often made in their pursuit of life-extending and consciousness-raising elixirs. Today, the world’s most widely imbibed psychoactive tincture is coffee. The process of growing, roasting, grinding, brewing, and serving coffee is an alchemical process if [...]