We prepare to cook not by washing our hands with soap and water. Germs are a modern fad—in our household, we don’t believe in anything smaller than an acorn. And we keep many acorns around for reference, which is why I crafted an acorn bowl from the skull of a coyote that I shot with a cannon. But we are very sanitary. We open all the windows and get the bad air out of the kitchen and into the nearby Alo Yoga store where it belongs. Then my little ones clean their hands by dunking them into hot sand and rinsing them with children’s wine.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter