Posted in recipes, reading, one local summer, locavore, eat local on May 27th, 2008
Lest you think that we’re so busy local eating has gone by the wayside, let me assure you that things are still pretty dang local around here. The garden isn’t feeding us, but hopefully we’ll have lettuce and radishes soon. In the meantime I’ve been hitting the farmer’s markets and the local grocers that reliably […]
Posted in reading on Jan 4th, 2008
I’ve been trying to rein in my book buying habit and making use of my library card instead. But then winter arrived with a vengeance and there were a couple of books I had to have as long as I was ordering Christmas books on Amazon. Then in her inaugural blog post Rebekah Denn […]
Posted in urban chickens, reading on Nov 13th, 2007
The last of the cherry leaves are still holding on, but the rest of the trees around here are pretty much gone. This week it has struck me that the dark days of winter really are upon us. It’s barely light when I leave for work and it’s dark well before I leave the office.
I notice […]
As promised, I’m back to share my thoughts on beef. I decided to post today about beef because I think it’s especially relevant in light of the recent beef recalls by Topps and Cargill. There are some basic health concerns regarding beef products that come from cattle raised in confined-animal feeding operations (CAFOs), commonly called feedlots. I’m […]
Cookbooks are my porn. I love cookbooks and have to physically restrain myself from buying every one that takes my fancy. I own a surprisingly small collection for someone that loves them, and for that I can only thank the fact that visiting them at the bookstore gives me a fix that will last at […]
Posted in reading, locavore, EatLocalChallenge on Sep 28th, 2007
I never liked writing book reports as a kid, and I don’t enjoy them much more now. But the Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan has changed the way I think about eating, and likely changed my eating habits for life. It’s a book that anyone who thinks of themselves as a “foodie”, good cook, green […]
Posted in reading on Sep 22nd, 2007
Every once in a while I pick up a book on a whim, because I just can’t resist it. Such was the case with Still Life with Chickens by Catherine Goldhammer. This slim little volume is bursting with a touching story of a woman and her daughter plus their six chickens trying to find a new […]
