10/31/10 lavender cupcakes

Hearty squash cupcakes sweetened with honey, and little gingery, lemony bits in the breading composition. Cream cheese frosting sprinkled with sugared lemon zest and whole, dried lavender flowers. Flowers that you don't feel, don't notice until you are chewing them and there are these little peppery, perfumy bits in your mouth and you think of how food is not just food, but it needs to feed the spirit, too. It needs to lift you up (and it's not just about the posh, gluttonous income-bracket thing that has been happening lately in our culture's food consumption, but just a little touch that reminds you that food is of the gods).