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10 Things About A Book: In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food 1) We die of Western diseases [cancers, heart disease] because human bodies have not yet adapted to modern-day eating habits. We don’t eat food; we eat “food products”, which, for profits’ sake, are made of crops available cheaply and easily and man-made ingredients that bypass the fickle and unstable [...]
I hope ya don’t mind, I hope ya don’t mind that put down on my blog…
…how wonderful life is while you’re in the world. The List of Love, 2010 version. 1) letterpress printmaking 2) brunch 3) 10-year olds 4) capable men 5) gnocchi 6) Intervention 7) uplifting guerrilla art 8) Bodo Riemer 9) bench seats 10) Cake Wrecks 11) old New York 12) old Brooklyn 13) old everything 14) Orson [...]
Annual Repost: Perhaps Labor Day Doesn’t Come From a Store. Perhaps Labor Day means a bit more.
As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. With the long hours and [...]
[What I Am Doing on My Summer Vacation] {Part 1}
1. Watching the butterfly activity around the Electrician‘s butterfly bush. 2. Collecting hugs. 3. Trying to return to baking. Here is a two-layer orange cake with lemon glaze icing. For my Pop’s birthday. 4. Weekending in the Hamptons. That’s an outdoor shower next to the “Love Shack”. 5. Seeing the family. 6. Eating A LOT [...]
Grilled Portabello Burger
Please note: 1) Portabello mushrooms are a great grill option for the summer. They’re lighter than a dense veggie burger, leaving plenty of room for sides. Opt for sturdy, not soft, buns. 2) My new camera is amazing. See the husk hair of the sweet corn? The glimmer of the marinated cap? The blurry mass of [...]
Beating the Hangover [Vegan Version]
Bliss‘s Vegan Breakfast Burrito I don’t know about you but the morning after a night of drinking, I am nutrient-starved. I crave a variety of tastes and textures, and their accompanying nourishment. Hangover remedies are much like old wives tales. But through the years of trial and error after a night of drinking errors, I [...]
The Two Ways of Valentine Days: Half Empty
10 Reasons Why Love Stinks. 1.) You cannot will someone to action. 2.) We are, in the end, singular vessels of emotion. 3.) Outsides often don’t match the insides. 4.) Youth is wasted on the young. Love is wasted on the loved. 5.) The perceptive, sensitive and intelligent suffer easier than… 6.) Your parents messed [...]
The Two Ways of Valentine Days: Half Full
Sweet thing CandyPenny hosted a Valentine’s get-together with the goal of heating the heart with spicy, tangy and sweet-inspired foods. The spread was magnificent and included a zest wasabi-infused ed potato salad, mole enchiladas with butternut squash, spicy glazed tempeh, sesame quinoa noodles and beer-battered sweet and sour tofu, along with plenty of sweetness. Em’s [...]
25 More Things I’ve Learned in Life So Far: Wisdumb For the Ages
by Karen Z. unless otherwise noted. 26. Always shake the ketchup bottle. 27. The following things should always be able to kick your ass: ginger, whiskey, love and coffee. If they’re not, they’re not strong enough. 28. Low-hanging fruit is for the lazy and cowardly. Within challenges, risks and uncertainties lay the best rewards. 29. [...]
25 Things I’ve Learned in Life So Far: Wisdumb For the Ages
by Karen Z. unless otherwise noted. 1. Always smile and say hello to those you pass on a hiking trail. You have something important in common. 2. Learn how to tell time by the sun’s location or a clock tower’s toll. Time is not on your wrist. 3. Always wear your eye glasses on a [...]
✩ ✩ Buy Nothing Day: Friday, 11/27/09 ✩ ✩
1. Break a comfort zone. For the most part, we exist safely in the parameters of our comfort zones. By design, they don’t challenge us. Year after passing year, growing boundaries can keep us comfortable– but should that be the goal of our time here? Today I’ll have a meaningful conversation with a stranger, parallel [...]
The calm before the storm…
I haven’t been in the kitchen much at all these days. But that will change very, very soon. The holiday marathon of cooking, pot lucks, food shares and Christmas cookies begins this weekend. And for the first time ever, I will be responsible for the entire Thanksgiving meal at my parent’s house. This is a colossal [...]
