@bookstodon Highly recommend the long-running (and still running...i.e. not finished) After Cilmeri series by Sarah Woodbury. It's historical fiction/alternate history set in medieval Wales, where Wales is never consumed by England. Fairly light reading and quite fun!
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I really can't recommend Gordon Doherty's Empires of Bronze series enough - it's written really well and he clearly has done his research. What's really fascinating is that the story is ultimately a sad one - the Sea Peoples essentially end up wiping out most Bronze Age civs (other than the Egyptians), but the story has a hopeful ending. The author also does a great job of separating fact from fiction.
@bookstodon Does anyone know of historical fiction set in similarly "esoteric" (aka not classical greece or rome) ancient civilizations? This one was fascinating in part because it gave me a window into Hittite culture. I found (but have not yet bought or read) this series set in the Mayan civilization:
Just finished book 4 in the Empires of Bronze series and man it was good. Highly, highly recommend the series. It is well thought out, descriptive (to the point of revulsion at some of the war and torture scenes), and full of twists and turns. It feels like one of those great series where the whole storyline was plotted out well before the first word was put on paper. Absolutely recommend.
@Helen50@bookstodon Pretty much never, TBH. I have several unfinished books and series pending, but it's been a very rare book that I've set down without ever intending to pick it up again.
I don't use apple books anymore. What I'd love to do is have a list of all of the books that I purchased on apple books in a spreadsheet or something, so I could see if they're on amazon. #bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon
@The_BookishWolf@Eceni@bookstodon I wonder how Kobo does (they're my poison of choice for DRM ebooks b/c I have a way of freeing those books). For DRM-free ebooks (which then opens you up to any epub reader in terms of app), Smashwords is probably your best bet for general books. ebooks.com also has a DRM-free collection.
I’m searching for boots similar to these but vegan for obvious reasons. I love boots but haven’t had them for years because I couldn’t find any cool-looking.
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I have boots from here and they're great (I personally got the WVSport Insulated Waterproof Hiking Boots, but they also have other types of boots): https://www.wills-vegan-store.com/
@bitsplease@Poem_for_your_sprog Pretty much. Just also want to add that if we want to make eggs or dairy a staple of our diet (especially dairy), it requires essentially treating other living beings as factories to be abused until they die. Like, cows don't continuously produce milk all the time, right? They have to give birth and then they start producing milk (like literally every mammal). So if we want milk on demand, we need to keep cows continuously pregnant, clearly abuse.
@Dkarma@BonesOfTheMoon You don't need 2gm/lb of bw, though. First, it would be per lb of lean bw. Second, it's actually more like 1 g/lb of lean bw, or 2.2 g/kg of lean bw as an upper max, like if you're a super body builder. For regular people, something much more like 1.5 g/kg of lean bw is totally sufficient.
Oh, and I eat a ton of legumes, so I can (and do) easily exceed that 2.2 g/kg threshold on my workout days.
Fedi, give me your best vegan (or easily veganizable) spiralizer and/or air fryer recipes! Ideally WFPB (whole foods, plant based), so no oil or refined sugar (salt is fine), but we can easily modify vegan recipes to make them WFPB (so it's nice but not necessary).
Multigrain bread topped with poppy seeds! Multigrain flour includes: millet, khorasan wheat, sorghum, buckwheat, brown and red rice, tricolor quinoa, and green and red lentils (home-milled using #wondermill). Followed the recipe in Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads book for Multigrain Struan, using molasses for the sweetener, replacing oil with tahini, and using homemade (1:2 cashews:water) cashew milk.
I've started experimenting with some baking using home-milled flours (other than whole wheat flour, which...we could do, but we don't have nearly enough wheat and store-bought flour is cheap enough). Made a multigrain flour using Kamut wheat, sorghum, tricolor quinoa, brown and red rice, (proso) millet, buckwheat, green lentils, and red lentils. I'm using the Multigrain struan recipe from Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads, so letting it sit overnight before baking.
Side note: the book very much is not vegan, but most recipes can be easily veganized by substituting non-dairy milk or yogurt. I imagine the same is true for egg replacements (either a flax egg or two should do the trick or something like applesauce or a banana - depending on the recipe, I presume). Likewise, @wfpb adherents like myself can modify these recipes to either omit the oil entirely or replace it with something like tahini (my personal favorite) and it should still work quite well.
The liberty of citizens is always constrained by respect for the liberties of others. What matters for our pets is to have food that is both palatable and meets all their nutritional needs. We've entered a time when people are not forced to choose between healthy, ethical, or tasty food for their pets.
One thing the "Empires of Bronze" series does really well is not glorify war. The gruesome, awful details are laid out to make it clear that war is not something noble. It also does a great job of humanizing both the Hittite and the Egyptian sides as being motivated by things we could conceivably agree with (namely, avenging a close one's death).
I only discovered who Steven Bartlett was when I saw him interviewed on Sunday Brunch, but I found him really interesting & thought-provoking. This book is too (and his podcasts, although I've only listened to a few so far...). Perhaps it isn't quite as revolutionary as I thought it might be, but lots of useful advice & ideas I can use in the classroom/staffroom and a better male role model to use than so many the students see at the moment? @edutooters@bookstodon#Books#AmReading#bookstodon
@kolev@wfpb Nope. For me, restaurants (and eating at other people's houses) are the only time I relax WFPB (stick to vegan though, for ethical reasons).
@kolev@wfpb I have (occasionally - Sabra isn't exactly my favorite company given that (a) they're co-owned by Pepsico, a company I avoid and (b) their other co-owner is an Israeli company that provides financial support to the Israeli military), but I honestly don't like oily hummus. I'm like 95% oil-free (only oil I eat is when we eat out) and not at all used to oily food at this point.
Homemade almond butter using the stainless steel burrs that came with the WonderMill Junior! We added 1/4 tsp salt to 1 lb of freshly roasted almonds and mixed before grinding (to ensure the salt was relatively evenly distributed). We got the almonds from the bulk section of the grocery store and roasted right before grinding (higher temperature makes it easier).
Vegan Boots (lemmy.world)
I’m searching for boots similar to these but vegan for obvious reasons. I love boots but haven’t had them for years because I couldn’t find any cool-looking.
I've had more conversations about this than I care to count. (lemmy.world)
multi vitamin (www.amazon.com)
Ran out of my ritual multi vitamins and wanted some quick, got these from Walgreens....