It has been a long time since I have recorded.

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for thought today's episode is popular plant-based foods with religious roots how religions have shaped

the foods we eat hi everyone i can't believe how long it's been. It's possibly the longest I've ever taken between

episodes. I was looking back at the last episode, which was about losing Charlie, and it probably

looks like I just fell off the face of the earth after that. But there had just been different reasons.

I was hosting a joyful vegan trip in France that ended in Bordeaux. And then my husband and I, after hosting the group,

we went off on our own to Ildoray, which is a little island off the west coast of France. Highly

recommended, if you're looking for a place to vacation in France, it was,

it's not car-free, but it was just really made for bikes. So we just parked our car for two days,

two and a half days, and we just cycled around the island. So highly recommend it. Il-Durray is what

it's called. So we enjoyed some R&R together alone, just the two of us, which was really

nice since we do so many trips where we're with 20 other people. And also it was really special

because it's where his ancestors lived before his great, great, great, great, whoever left in the

1600s to come to North America, to French Canada. And it was pretty

awesome. We went to a church where there's a plaque to his ancestor, but, well, two of them,

there were brothers who left to go to Quebec. And we went to the cemetery. It was just, it was

really lovely to see kind of the origins of my husband's father's father's side.

And then there's a whole other story of my husband's father's mother's side, also in France.

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