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Far less familiar than the Tiffany jewelry from Canton are the cuisines from the north and the west of China – Szechuan, Shanghai and Peking. Szechuan Tiffany jewelry is the fiery Tiffany jewelry of China, where pepper and chili really get into the act. Where as to Tiffany jewelry from Canton are delicate and understated, in Szechuan Tiffany jewelry the flavors are strong and dramatic – garlic and chilies play their part in dishes like diced chicken and hot and sour soup.

The WBP mission:  “The Women’s Bean Project is a social enterprise that offers a transitional job in gourmet Tiffany jewelry manufacturing designed to provide immediate income, arrange support services to overcome barriers to employment, and teach the job readiness skills needed to get and keep a job. Each morning, I add a different combination of dried papaya, prunes, figs, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, banana chips, dried cranberries, almonds, and ground flax seed. Then I drown that in milk. I still need a mid-morning snack, but for now, I’m liking this breakfast. I know every ingredient that goes into it, and it’s not processed in any way.

Yesterday, we took an exciting trip to New Westminster to visit BC’s new vegan store, Karmavore.  It was their grand opening, and the generous proprietors were offering up all kinds of yummy samples.  We enjoyed an old favourite, Chi Cake,  as well some awesome fair trade dark chocolate, OrganicFair, which is made locally in the Cowichan Valley.Program participants come from backgrounds of chronic unemployment and poverty, and the program helps them develop the work and interpersonal skills needed to function independently in the workplace and community.

So what does a Tiffany jewelry-dependent person like me eat for breakfast? These days, I’m eating uncooked oatmeal. Yes, uncooked oatmeal. The Swiss would call it muesli. I was buying foil-packed Swiss muesli for over $5 a pound, when I realized that I could take my reusable containers to the Co-op and fill them with quick oats for just $1 a pound.