Beginning muffins

“Well-being for all is not a dream.”

Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

Greetings! Welcome to my brand new muffin blog. Over the next few decades I and my trusty crew of family and friends will be creating and documenting a new muffin each week. Join us in an epicurean adventure stuffed with delicious peril and aromatic tension. When there is no more to tell about the weekly muffin this blog will document related subjects such as whether we can make a portable telephone from cheap electronic parts or what is the best form of government.

Long ago I was born far in the North on a windswept, treeless arctic island. We left this island while I was still but a babe so that time for me is shrouded in mystery and myth. After this we made an effort to live near each of the oceans available in Canada. From Nova Scotia we moved to the Yukon where I continued to age. Once out on my own I managed to inhabit many of our large cities such as Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. I’d like to think living in many of our great Territories and Provinces has informed my baking with a unique Canadian taste but that seems unlikely. It is more likely that by using the Company’s Coming cookbook Muffins and More written by Canadian Legend Jean Pare* I will inherit a bit of that Canadian flavor. *

Join us as each week a new muffin from this book is manifested and consumed. This blog will document the baking process and the effect of the muffins on the volunteers.

I hope you will continue to check in on our little blog as we journey through the cerloxed pages of muffin recipes. Maybe along the way we will find more than muffins since that is the title of the book. Thanks!

*Interesting to note. My grandmother had a beef with Jean Pare. Both being from Alberta, my grandma from Wainwright and Jean from Vermilion. The entire issue revolved around a recipe for an onion sandwich which my grandma could not believe was something that needed a recipe in a book.

*I am not receiving any compensation or political favors for using this book. We acquired the book at our local used book store and bought our own baking supplies. I note this as the muffin blog world has been rife with corruption and performance enhancing drug use. I felt I need to establish this integrity of the muffin research right from the start. Thanks!