Alex Elliot - Cornersmith Cracker! A celebration of imperfect perfection

Bugger off dogmatic rules - who wrote those anyway. Push off unfaltering sustainable existence - you're leave us feeling guilty. Shhhh up incessant Instagram perfection - its not real!  Tune in to this fire cracker of fresh air to recalibrate your judgment beacon and give yourself a break while you learn to a make a difference in a way that works for you. Could that be quiet food related activism or perhaps sharing practical skills in your community, or waking up to the plastic explosion in our lives and actively curbing your contribution. Perhaps its pickling...everything in sight! What ever your path, Alex is unwaveringly supportive of anyone having a go at even the smallest of things & her final word of advice ' slow down, don't peak too soon...its a long path & its not getting any easier'

Growing up in a share house that loved to cook in her formative years 

Creating community around the share plate

Being ok with fish fingers and frozen peas

Letting judgement go to make a difference while being accepting

Education to build hope & practical skills during this climate emergency

The exhausting weight of being sustainable 24/7

Wanting to help people fall in love with their kitchens again without ideology

Beginning a business with her husband despite limited experience

Discovering pickling when her kids were tiny & she was losing her mind

Pickling as an onramp to a simpler sustainable life

Lying awake thinking about wasting cumquats

Putting community abundance to good use in a pickling jar

Crossing language barriers to learn food preservation methods from her neighbourhood

Taking twists & turns in business

Why now is the time to stand up & shout really loudly

No person can avoid having to make regenerative choices

Getting bolder with age

Trading with locals who swap backyard produce for coffee

Navigating a food business through covid

Avoiding being black and white

Making spaces where its simple for people to make a contribution

Choosing her favourite pickle

You don’t have to make mega batches of food to make a contribution

Eating and using what you’ve got to reduce food waste

Choose one thing, while you build your habits and reframe your practices

Do we all need to be a little uncomfortable in order to make us all think and create other solutions,

Wake up and stop being passive, owning your decisions or solutions

Using scraps from the bin to create magic

If it can be used - use it

Saving money by using every single part of every single thing

Lucky dip cupboard - food without labels

The process of writing a cook book

Replacing the guilt with creativity in the kitchen

The disservice of instagram perpetuating perfection

Pearl of wisdom - going slower in our change journey to ensure longevity

References Cornersmith - Use it all

Cornersmith - Food Savers Guide A-Z Podcast partners ROCK!

Hidden Sea - Wine that saves the sea

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