leavings

Basically, the California of multiple thousands and millions of years ago was a-slosh with glacial leavings, lakes and rivers.

Looking back on the experience, Adler sees her final recipes as the product of a laborious process but one that elevates what she poetically calls “the leavings of one’s earlier hungers.”

During a painstaking, two-year-long process, she laminated thin layers of wood, drawn from what she calls the “leavings” from the furniture workshop floor, into a floral motif that sits on the floor, 20 feet across.

Such leavings have been studied for more than 10 years in people to better understand diet and health.

Seattle has slid closer to becoming Everywhere Else, America: Sterile, empty, with corporatized leavings.