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Silence: Oxygen For The Soul

Silence: Oxygen For The Soul by Christine Moss. Photograph by Christine Moss
All photographs by Christine Moss

Craving inspiration and travel, a chef’s quest for culture and culinary fusion highlights the need for silence to enrich it all

Silent Night, Holy Night. The sound of silence. John Cage’s 4’33”. 

I have never been much of a city person, though I grew up in one. As a result, when I was living there I created emotional boundaries and buffers to cope and survive within it. But each reprieve, each escape to places with more silence such as woods and mountains, made it increasingly more difficult to return ‘home’ to

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