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Book II of my Thailand travels is now published on Blurb! This second installment of my words and photographs was a long time in the making. Sorting through 586 MB of photos and proofing 17,559 words was a huge task. The book, showing all of my March 2008 travels in Northern, Northeastern and Southern Thailand, is double the size of Book I.  Feel free to preview the book here! Special thanks to Wok Man, who edited my horrendously high quantity of comma omissions.
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The KZ/WM/CP Homebrewed Holiday Spiced Winter Ale is officially bottled! Giving the yeast one more big meal of sugar to start carbonation, the bottled beer will age for the next few weeks. I will miss seeing that gurgling carboy on my closet’s floor.The label for my yuletide ale is also finished and ready for the presses! Considering only a few lucky souls will receive my “winter warmer” in its fancy liter bottle, I’ll show off my finished label here. Next Christmas I may make things easier on myself and maybe give all gifts of home-brew. 

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Raw food week has started! The past few days I celebrated, enjoying my last cooked meals for 8 days. Below: perfect pancakes with a river of Earth Balance and a Kombucha, Fruity fried rice at *erb in Greenpoint (i.e. fried rice sauteed with pineapple, mango, grape, green apple and cashew nuts), sweet turnip in sticky rice encasing: the delicious Thai crepe, use-all-the-cilantro-before-it-goes-bad stir fry on quinoa, and Boneshakers‘ Bob Roll.  

We hit the Red Hook Fairway today, racked up a 3 foot receipt of raw goods and spent some long hours prepping the week’s food. Alfalfa “burgers”
My lunch: Alfalfa “burger” on greens topped with herbed tomato sauce and sliced avocado, mock crab meat salad with a sprinkle of paprika, raw apple pie, orange and raw chocolate bar.