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Homer in the Iliad describes how figs are used to curdle milk. I curdle milk by the fig's Leaves now, since figs are not ready yet and I like to eat them anyway.

This curdled milk is an ancient recipe, with a very mild sweet taste, 100% sattvic, with lots of vitamin B12. My gratefulness to teh cows who, by their sacrifice, allow me to enjoy this perfect food, I pray that their sacrifice be rewarded by a better incarnation and by my own spiritual evolution.
Please note, the milk is not heated, just warmed at body temperature, to let the vegetable enzymes kick in. The enzyme is called ficain or ficine, contained in the White fig's sap.
Please also note how I match an ancient, chipped bowl to this protohistoric recipe, which Lord Krishna undoubtedly relished.

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Figs do not grow here. You need a Mediterranean climate..... i do believe. Lucky you!

A few farms out here in hillsboro oregon have them, I have a young fig in the backyard, let me snap some pics...

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SI, that's it, you nearly have some ripe fruits out there, you might have a try at the home-curdled milk.
Like Steve says, in Michigan they probably would find it difficult to thrive.

Another plant used traditionally by the Italian shepherds to curdle milk is the wild thistle (cynara cardunculus silvestris), which gives a bitterish taste to the cheese. I never tried that, a few specialized business produce that, sheep's cheese with raw milk and thistle rennet, I must see if I can get some. Maybe  thistles are ubiquitous in America.

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I finally found one cheese curdled with thistle, it was today in a supermarket:

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Does that have health value or just a treat to the taste buds. Haven't seen it in this neck of the woods.

We use the girdled type to protect our cheese.

Steve, it's excellent! A little like unseasoned parmesan cheese but less salty. They use unrefined marine salt but just a little since the overall taste is sweet. i was expecting some bitterish taste from the thistle but there was none.

zygoat, is your nickname derived from Dan Simmon's Hyperion Cantos? Superb work of science fiction.

Zygoats are domesticated pack animals used on the planet T'ien Shan. A planet which is all high ridges, populated by buddhists, where you could only travel by ropes tensed between ridges., using sophisticated climbing equipment. The bottom was a deadly sea kilometers down, where of course a mistake while crossing ridges would send you.

Mccoy

Do u remember Leila? She seems to have disappeared but she did influence me quite a bit about being a vegan.

Yes I remember her, a hard activist for the animalistic movement.

She influenced me a little but not much, actually now I'm making sure I'm drinking a glass of milk (organic) daily, whereas I didn't previously.

Our bodies, like Bakhtananda said, may not be ready for a vegan or fruitarian diet. Mine sure isn't.

After our discussions on cyanocobalamin, vitamins and minerals I decided some natural cyanocobalamin should be part of my diet.

I'm also eating chickpeas to ensure ingestion of some natural iron. It is reasonable to think that natural nutrients are better then the ones contained in supplements.

I believe we r influenced more by people who stay around a bit. Otherwise they r a bit like a flash in the pan. Very Brite... then fizzle out.

True enough, lenght of association gives strenght to one's own vibrations.

The final objective truth about the best diet appears to be, Beyond the basic rules to be Always respected,  that there is no objective truth, it's too personal.