A lunchtime outing, with wonderful friends. Scafata, Trippa, coratella. And then stracchetti.
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Pockets!
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I made some trousers with unusual pockets, and I think they’re good.
I came to this via John Naughton's website (he doesn't say how he got there), and I have no idea who Sam Bleckley is, but in re-thinking the trouser pocket he has done something rather wonderful, maybe even genius.
I'd buy a pair in a flash.
Today’s big bake, 70% Manitoba with 10% each of einkorn, spelt and rye (wholemeal)
Today’s big bake, 70% Manitoba with 10% each of einkorn, spelt and rye (wholemeal). Very deep flavour with a custard crumb when fresh
pesosDefending inflation
Excellent, clear explanation. I rather liked this bit:
One strange feature of American ~popular economic discourse~ is that the rarified troubles of the very rich often get discussed as if they were “normal”, but: they are extremely not normal.
The million-dollars-in-cash-havers can fend for themselves.
Because it is so true.
Time for some of that fine 100% rye sourdough with toasted sunflower seeds and a hint of caraway.
Time for some of that fine 100% rye sourdough with toasted sunflower seeds and a hint of caraway.
pesosFun to see @racheleats photo of Bonci Pizza illustrating this article, although that seems to me as far from ordinary pizza al taglio as that is from Mr Go’s pizza vendining machine.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/may/07/dough-to-go-romes-first-pizza-vending-machine-gets-mixe...
If I were a winemaker in Salento, I think I'd support change to ensure that I wasn't cutting myself off from customers.
Jeremy Parzen with some rival etymologies for Negroamaro grapes and why, whichever one is "true" it might be wise to rethink.
https://dobianchi.com/2021/05/05/negroamaro-racial-slur-racist/
Terrific article on dates in SoCal.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-03/muslim-tradition-break-ramadan-fast-with-dates
I assume you already know about Craig Mod and his very interesting, and very well-documented, long walks through Japan.
Commonplace – Lucy Bellwood
Fascinating.
TIL Zibaldone, which I might just have to make my own.
Thanks to very good advice from @orchidwhisperer19 to use weak tea as a pick-me-up, i now have a somewhat better parent plant and two little Keikis potted up to grow through the summer
Thanks to very good advice from @orchidwhisperer19 to use weak tea as a pick-me-up, i now have a somewhat better parent plant and two little Keikis potted up to grow through the summer. And, who knows, another keiki left on the parent to be potted on this time next year.</p><p>Happy May Day!
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@theRSAorg I am so disappointed that beyond lip service in the intro there was absolutely no further mention of trade in global food commodities. Even a brief acknowledgement of Brewster Kneen's pioneering efforts to shine a light on Cargill would have added immeasurably.
@GeoffTansey Thanks for the link to the UNCTAD report on cashews. I've not yet read it, but I wonder whether it details the World Bank's role in destroying Mozambique's cashew processing industry?
I did an episode about this a while back https://www.eatthispodcast.com/cashews/
A really great piece that I will bookmark as a good place to send people who ask the question Why Blog?
Because, as Marc Weidenbaum answers, Blogs Are Great.
USDA says there were about 2,019,000 farms in the US in 2020. But how many were actually farms in the usual sense of the word, growing food for sale as their primary business. I'm sure @rosenblawg said something about this recently, but I can't now find it. Help, please.
Star of this mess is not the tofu, the zucchini or the peanuts but the rice
Star of this mess is not the tofu, the zucchini or the peanuts but the rice. There is a variety called Baldo that I only ever see unpolished and that is the bedrock of this and so many other meals. Nutty, chewy, filling, nutritious. Never without it for emergencies.
pesos"Scotland is a colossus in native breeds."
That's all you really need to know, but if you want to read about the "six big asks" (yuck) it is all here https://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/19213969.vote-native-breeds/
Whitewood under Siege
Can't enough of this kind of thing.
[M]any experts consider the pallet to be the most important materials-handling innovation of the twentieth century. Studies have estimated that pallets consume 12 to 15 percent of all lumber produced in the US, more than any other industry except home construction.
Some further thoughts on organic fertility | Small Farm Future
Ultimately, the long-term necessity to cycle rather than mine P could be a key factor propelling humanity back to a predominantly rural, distributed and agrarian human geography.
Is anybody listening?
TIL that dumdum bullets were made originally in Dumdum. By design?
I have an hour or so to myself, so, Moom or Johnny.Decimal, that is the question.
Let joy be unconfined: farm share of food dollar up from 14.2 cents in 2018 to 14.3 cents in 2019. Farmers get an even lower share of eating out dollars, and eating out dollars plunged during the pandemic.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=100802
When programmers take to baking: Amylase is a POKE instruction for the yeast computer.
A minor chuckle in a very good reflection on pandemic baking. https://interconnected.org/home/2021/03/30/baking
I've always wanted to try a sensory deprivation tank, though deprivation seems like entirely the wrong word. Floating in the Dead Sea is all well and good, but those salts sting. I would expect a proper tank to be much nicer.
"Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meat"
A less mouth-watering headline, you're unlikely to read.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/bc-dss033021.php
I agree that people should learn to protect themselves against pseudoscience, especially medical quackery. But before you ask "How is this supposed to work?" it might be even more worthwhile to ask "Does this even work?"
Without evidence of an effect, a mechanism is worthless.
Must We Cook?
Must We Cook? </p><p>Very excited to be joining Rachel Laudan, Ken Albala, Chad Ludington and Margot Finn tomorrow for what promises to be a great discussion.</p><p>Wednesday 31 March at 1:00pm EST, 7:00pm CEST </p><p>Join us on Zoom. Details in bio
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A very colourful garden has been quietly growing at the back of the fridge
A very colourful garden has been quietly growing at the back of the fridge. Luckily this is a spare, spare starter so I don’t even have to try and resurrect it, even though I could.
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