I now know for sure that the best food and drink comes directly from the source, or as close as you can get. Probably a universal kind of principle.
Speaking of, I like how the Protestants chose to go around the middle men to seek their own understanding.
Otoh, they eventually came up with their own forms of middle men, so to speak, that are different, but every bit the equal of what they left.
Buckaroo Banzai wasn’t the first to say it, but he was right: No matter where you go, there you are.
Whatever the reason(s) for leaving, no matter where you go, there you are...eventually. Been there, done that a few times, too.
Stringless sugar snap peas ... blanched they are candy from God’s Garden.