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Savoir Faire (n) French – The instinctive ability to know how to deal with any situation that arises.
Vintage Savoir Faire - Living the good life by rediscovering our roots.
The idea for Vintage Savoir Faire started after I took a course on herbal medicine. Before that class, I had absolutely no idea how people cared for themselves before ibuprofin and cold medicine – I’d just never thought about it. My thought process was: “Feeling sick? Pop a pill.” End of story.
I learned that humans have been using plants for health – very effectively (and inexpensively) – for millenniums. Why hadn’t I heard about this before?! And what other long-forgotten but still-really-useful stuff was I missing?
Vintage Savoir Faire is the place to rediscover, practice, adapt and share these skills and wisdom so we can improve our modern lives.
Come on… make great-great-grandma proud!
Why should you care?
- Live “cleaner” and healthier – fewer chemicals and processed foods
- Reduce your impact on the environment – eat/shop locally, be green, sustainable and eco-conscious
- Save money and buy less stuff – using a few basic ingredients, you can create lots of different things
- Or at the very least, learn some interesting party trivia to impress your friends (“Did you know your kitchen is teeming with wild yeasties, just waiting to be caught??”)
About Amanda:
I’m Amanda, and I’m the creator of Vintage Savoir Faire. I love creativity, cooking, technology, beauty products, and travel. My background is in computer software, but my true interests have always had a creative angle. As a child, I was always writing & directing movies with my friends, sewing potato-sack-like dresses (which I proudly wore to school), experimenting in the kitchen (one experiment involved exploding a bottle of homemade soda) and exploring the nearby woods. I’m American, and currently I’m living in London with my wonderful (and endlessly tolerant of my experimenting) boyfriend, Zak.
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