I am going to be preparing a vegan meal, so I am turning to the cookbook I own which contains a lot of complex and interesting vegan meals: The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen, by Peter Berley.
The recipes are all excellent, but some of his advice is kind of dubious. He recommends “real, unrefined, coarse gray Celtic sea salt” which contains “the eighty-four mineral elements originally in the ocean” because these elements “harmonize with the human body’s own fluids.”
Conscientious cooks may also want to note the following sidebar:
The next time you drain water from a sink, notice the direction it flows — this will tell you what the natural force of the water is where you live. Water spirals in a counterclockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. I like to maintain this harmony by stirring foods steadily in the natural direction.
Uh, okay.