Anarchist Apricot Toast at the Coffee Company
A wonderful way to start your day
When I first wrote about this terrific toast combination, it was in the context of something you might make at home. A few months later, the Coffee Company crew ran with the idea—they adapted it slightly for their setting and featured it as a special with my name on it. This month, it’s back on the menu, more delicious than ever. Just as important, for me in the moment, it puts apricots front and center. The combination of nicely toasted Bakehouse Farm Bread, Zingerman’s Cream Cheese, apricot jam, and Cinnamon Spiced Peanuts from the Candy Manufactory is truly irresistible!
As many of you know, I’ve been writing a lot about my work to make apricots the peaceful and positive symbol for dignity and democracy. I’ve been wearing my apricot pin for a couple months, and a number of lovely conversations have come from curious folks asking me what it is. In concert with Underground Printing here in town and with an amazing scratchboard illustration of an apricot by our own Ian Nagy, apricot t-shirts are now up for sale as of the release of this enews—proceeds will go to Democracy Now! I just placed my first order for myself today and will be sending some gifts later this week.
This much deeper appreciation of apricots was one of the unexpected outcomes of my deep studies of Ukrainian culture and history while working on “The Revolution of Dignity in the Twenty-First Century Workplace.” I had no idea apricots were such an essential element of Ukrainian culture and cooking. As I’ve shared, Ukrainian poet Lyuba Yakimchuk, who fled the region with her family when Russia invaded in 2014 (during what became the Revolution of Dignity), wrote in one of her poems in her book Apricots of Donbas,
Where no more apricots grow, Russia starts.
In any case though, come by the Coffee Company and enjoy some of this amazing apricot-forward toast—dignity and democracy manifesting in a marvelously delicious edible form! The small bit of beauty from the great combination of flavors on the Coffee Company’s toast can brighten one’s day in surprisingly wonderful ways. With that in mind, I’m inspired to eat—and pay far more attention to—apricots than I ever have in the past. When I eat this toast, it helps me move through whatever emotional difficulties—even on dark days—that I’m struggling with. It’s terrific and delicious! Hope to see you soon!
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