Through 11/8/17 get an amazing deal on a Love People box plus free Cocoa, Roasted Garlic & Cooks Vote! stickers.—
This is the first anniversary of the election, and pretty close to the millionth anniversary of us starting to cook. Are they related? Oh yes. Through cooking we found our humanity, the kindness, empathy and compassion that the modern Republican Party is now at war with. For the sake of our future, for the sake of our humanity, this is a conflict our country simply can't afford to lose.
Even though it's been over a century and a half since Darwin introduced us to the reality of evolution, the old notion that we leaped into the world in God's image has been a tough idea to shake. And even though science and the Pope too have said evolution's the real deal, we still like to think of ourselves as perfectly logical in our thinking and incredibly perceptive to the reality around us. But that's not exactly what Nature/God evolved us to be. As this last election showed, we are still completely capable of throwing logic and clear thought aside when the shrieking of our fellow primates gets loud enough.
The fact is, we are still animals. Like animals, we are quick to rage and anger and even violence. But we are also something more; we are cooks, and have been for close to a million years. Cooking set in motion a new and different step in evolution. With cooking, scarcity was quickly replaced with plenty. With cooking, strength no longer came from the ability to chase others away, strength came from the ability to welcome others in. Tens of thousands of generations around the fire taught us the strength in empathy, the power in kindness. With the human community cooking set in motion, we no longer needed to fear the other animals in the night.
And yes, just like the welcoming spirit of cooking gave us our special place among animals, here in America that very same spirit found at the heart of cooking gave us our special place among nations as well. And no, this gift was not something white settlers brought with them, it was instead something they discovered among the people already here when they arrived. From the heroic actions of Tisquantum and the Wampanoag people towards the pilgrims, to the honest respect for others of the Iroquois written into the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, the values of kindness and empathy set in motion through cooking are very much at the heart of our nation.
By welcoming in the castoffs of almost every other nation, the wretched refuse, the homeless, the tired, the poor, we built the most powerful nation on Earth. How it is that the Republican leadership, Fox News and the other propaganda media, and those in power in Russia have now arrived on the same page to be working to undermine all that has brought us to leadership in the world is something we may never fully understand. What I do know is that with your support we've been able to continue to stand up for the values of cooking and the values of America even through the calls of boycott against us that came with this stand. Thank you for this, it means everything.
If you are in the mood to continue that support, we've put together this offer with the thought of making it easy to give us a try. It's our Love People box at a great price, plus a free $11.90 value Roast Garlic and Natural Cocoa and 3 Cooks Vote! Stickers. If you know of someone who might enjoy us in their life, please share this post with them. Or maybe you'd like to get a jump start on your holiday shopping. The Love People. Cook them tasty food box, with its great Spices, bumper magnet, pin and cooking booklet, does a really nice job of sharing all the goodness found at the heart of cooking.
To get yours, just visit us online and add a Love People box to your cart (https://www.penzeys.com/…/love-people-del…/c-24/p-3057/pd-gb). The regular $44.95 price has already been reduced to just $29.95. Then type 42356C and 43953C into the apply code box while checking out for your Cocoa and Roasted Garlic. The Cooks Vote! stickers will be added to your order automatically. Together this is a great value; for just $29.95 it's a good deal, too. Just order before midnight Pacific Wednesday 11.8.17.
Thanks for your support,
Bill
bill@penzeys.com
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Thanks again.
