What's Cooking at Our House: Quiche

A quiche makes a nice meal for special occasions.

It's too time-consuming to be regular fare, but a quiche makes a nice meal for special occasions. For those who have making a pie crust down, it's no big deal, but for the rest of us it requires some real effort.

The filling is basically vegetables, eggs and a sprinkling of cheese. Here's one ready to go in the oven:



My wife made this quiche for our French side of the family during our visit last October. The crust is grated potato rather than wheat flour--a variation that would work well for those with gluten intolerance:



I know it sounds strange to the derealized mainstream, but "A healthy homecooked family meal and a home garden are revolutionary acts."

What does derealization mean? It means we have lost contact with the real deal-- real food, real work, real romance, real community, real thinking, even real experience, as our experience is shaped and our consent manufactured.

Though all my books address the politics of experience and derealization, Survival+ and Resistance, Revolution, Liberation develop the analysis most fully.


Growing food and preparing food are two anchors to the real world. Each is an act of caring and an engagement with the pleasures of living.

I am occasionally accused of being a smug elite for eating well. This reminds me of an old Dick Gregory joke in which he described the envy of an African-American worker's Anglo-American colleagues for his new Cadillac automobile. What the white guys didn't see, Gregory noted, was the Cadillac represented the daily sacrifice of 5,000 brown-bag lunches. The envious never see the sacrifices of others, they only see the positive result of 5,000 daily sacrifices and wonder why they can't have the same thing.

Having a garden and cooking are not as difficult as they're generally portrayed. They're the real deal, and that's their value, above and beyond all their other positive features. 

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The Nearly Free University and The Emerging Economy:
The Revolution in Higher Education

Reconnecting higher education, livelihoods and the economyWith the soaring cost of higher education, has the value a college degree been turned upside down? College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, revealing a deep disconnect between higher education and the job market.

It is no surprise everyone is asking: Where is the return on investment? Is the assumption that higher education returns greater prosperity no longer true? And if this is the case, how does this impact you, your children and grandchildren?


We must thoroughly understand the twin revolutions now fundamentally changing our world: The true cost of higher education and an economy that seems to re-shape itself minute to minute.

The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy clearly describes the underlying dynamics at work - and, more importantly, lays out a new low-cost model for higher education: how digital technology is enabling a revolution in higher education that dramatically lowers costs while expanding the opportunities for students of all ages.

The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy provides clarity and optimism in a period of the greatest change our educational systems and society have seen, and offers everyone the tools needed to prosper in the Emerging Economy.

Read Chapter 1/Table of Contents

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Things are falling apart--that is obvious. But why are they falling apart? The reasons are complex and global. Our economy and society have structural problems that cannot be solved by adding debt to debt. We are becoming poorer, not just from financial over-reach, but from fundamental forces that are not easy to identify. We will cover the five core reasons why things are falling apart:

1. Debt and financialization
2. Crony capitalism
3. Diminishing returns
4. Centralization
5. Technological, financial and demographic changes in our economy

Complex systems weakened by diminishing returns collapse under their own weight and are replaced by systems that are simpler, faster and affordable. If we cling to the old ways, our system will disintegrate. If we want sustainable prosperity rather than collapse, we must embrace a new model that is Decentralized, Adaptive, Transparent and Accountable (DATA).

We are not powerless. Once we accept responsibility, we become powerful.

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