Life and Spirituality

  The Meeting between Leo the Great (painted as a portrait of Leo X ) and Attila b y Raffael “Wars for a righteous cause result in peace but wars over self interest result in destruction during and after” ashok m. A n earlier post in this blog described healthy wines called Las wines of gods much healthier than any of the wines currently available in world markets. The present post is about another mildly alcoholic drink that is also a health drink. It is not a wine because it is not made from fruit juices but rather from milk. The drink described here is adapted from the ancient drink of Kumis. It’s the beverage of the horsemen of the Central Asian steppes, warriors like Attila the Hun or Genghis Khan. They were avid consumers of it. It appears to be still popular in countries like Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhstan. It created strong warriors, t he ones who caused the great migrations out of Central Asia between 400 and 800 AD. The Mon...

Dionysus the god of winemaking and wine, fertility and religious ecstasy depicted on marble sarcophagus showing Triumph of Dionysus, Hellenistic marble sculpture; Metropolitan Museum, New York "Hail Dionysus, The god of wine. May he with his grace, if he deems fit reveal to mankind the secrets of making a wine fit to offer to the gods, perchance some came to walk upon the Earth"  ashok   Las wines - Green, yellow and blue wines   Although, good wines are produced in Europe and other parts of world by fermenting grape juice, in the opinion of this author, it suffers from one major drawback that makes it unfit to be labeled as the wine of the gods. They are partly unnatural chemical drinks because of use of refined sugar added before fermentation. Refined sugar is a chemical, not a natural food, far from the best possible natural one. This deficiency can be overcome easily by replacing added sugar in the fermentation mix with natural sugar cane juice....

  I have had the good fortune to live and work in different parts of the world. Everywhere, it was my cardinal principle to enjoy local culture including local foods and drinks rather than stick to the habits from back home. I was introduced to good wine as a doctoral student in Canada during the department Christmas party at UBC and still enjoy it on occasions. If you are a wine lover too then you may enjoy some simple facts about wine and wine making that have been gathered through my travels and experiments that most books don’t tell. First of all as regards alcohol uphold the principle enshrined by King Solomon the wise some thousands of years ago as recorded in the Old Testament of the holy Bible “Give wine to a person heavy of heart but give strong drink to a person who wishes to destroy himself” There is really much wisdom in this statement that personally experienced. Many persons consume an alcoholic drink once in a while. At times that drink happens to b...