Day for the zen meditation groups in Holland

Last sundag there was a day for the zenmeditation groups in Holland. Lots of people came. When Jiun roshi was introduced to all the people, I got inspired to make this cartoon.

Hiding behind the boeddha

Happy Easter, with or without gluten...

Is it because of our chemical manipulated food that we become more and more intolerant or even allergic to gluten or milkproducts? 

Or is it because of the quality of our food that the number of people that become sick from eating bread increases? 

On the web I learn that wheat is like a poison and there heas been much manipulations with it, so that it has different qualities nowadays. Qualities that are not good for our health. But on another webpage I learn that this is totally nonsense, and that there is no scientific evidence for this. 

Companies are taking advance of this aversion of people against gluten. You can buy gluten free beer. And gluten free ice or pineapples. But actually, there are no gluten in ice or pineapples. But they sell it 'glutenfree', because people want to buy it. 

I'm not a foodexpert. But I'm a cook. And that's why it concerns me. When I cook for groups nowadays it appears that there are five times as much people with a diet than three years ago. And for me, as a cook, that is becoming a little bit too much...

So I ask myself:" how is it possible that the amount of diets has increased so fast?" I don't have an answer to  that question. At the Noorder Poort, where I work, we have now the rule that we only take care of diets when it is accompanied with a disposition of a doctor. This rule diminishes the amount of diets a lot. 

This weekend I cook for a group of thirty people. Two people have a diet. I'm going to make a nice Easter brunch on the second Easter day. With homemade Easterbread. And eggs from hens that have much space to move. 

I hope it becomes a happy Easter for everybody. With or without gluten.