Tag: environment
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In Algiers
DISCLAIMER & WARNING: If you are a rabid animal-rights-type vegetarian and/or don’t have a stomach for some less delicate events in life, please do not read this. . . I started using Twitter recently. I’ve been using Facebook since last year and making regular, about-daily, sometimes more often status updates for all of my friends. […]
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Blue
The photo was snapped around 6 PM EST Saturday in between rain showers. For a few minutes that evening, the sky turned a glowing blue. It seemed to cover the clouds, Palisades, bridge and river. Strange atmosphere. Beautiful. Sublime? No terror involved. Just awe. Something else, I don’t know what to label it. Blue works. […]
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Naval gazing Thursday
It’s cold Not biting Smell’s burning outside I breathed it in here I did Deeply Head up, nose into it Ribs opened sideways And pulled it in Coals glow there Something plastic thrown in the fire and melts on a log Beers tipped Passed smokables around a pit I hate fuzzy white bunnies Or move […]
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It’s a big cairn out there
This concludes the cairn series, until and unless the urban-cairn maker decides to throw some more rocks together. Until then..
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Teapot needs a cosy
My fridge Knows When its Cold outside It succumbs And Follows suit Why one stays put when the desire to leave remains strong. . . Bon nuit..
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Frozen water on tap
A gift to the letter Q. May it evoke a sufficient sensory experience. A favourite cafe upstate serves chilled bottles of tap water at each table. Yesterday, the bottle was chilled so that a plug formed. The water dribbled out. It was amusing enough to Monsieur et moi to film pouring it. Cin cin..
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French benefits
When ‘the French’ arrived for lil’sis’ wedding, they brought with them des rillettes et du andouille for Monsieur et moi to enjoy. These make for a delicious, though not the heart-healthiest, and simple meal. A glass of red wine, some cornichons, and crackers or baguette. A ripe pear to finish, to aid in digestion and […]
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Name that junk food
Can you identify what junk food is pictured above? A hint for you and you and you: It’s somewhat of a new addition to the street and county fair circuit, and perhaps it was invented somewhere in the south. Submit your answer via the comments button. Buen provecho..
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Letter from Pollan
Today’s naval gazing Thursday is a link to read an open letter, written by Michael Pollan, to the near-future President-elect that will be published in the Food Issue of the NY Times Magazine this Sunday. Buen provecho..
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Sushi in your pocket
There’s something fishy going on at the Monterey Bay Aquarium this month and it’s not just swimming around and around in the sardine tank. I’m tapping about it here because these programs reach well beyond Cannery Row to folks nationwide. On October 22nd, the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) will launch the Sushi Seafood Guide. This […]
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Food muse
Class this semester has me reporting and writing about religion, politics, voting and other relevant topics for the news-writing newbie to cut teeth on. But class does not send me spot assigning about food. On top of my academic focus being diverted from food, my mind and mouth have also been somewhat diverted from the […]
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Proof of cake..
..or the one that got away. A dark chocolate-dipped strawberry was sacrificed for the mouth-feeling enjoyment of the lady holding the plate. Sadly, moments after the picture was taken, she was distracted away to laugh and frolic. The strawberry sat forgotten and uneaten. A moment of silence for desserts lost in the wedding war. . […]
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Three generations rings
G(r)amma-ray couldn’t attend little sister’s wedding last weekend except in spirit, and in residual DNA left unwashed from her rings. Cin cin..
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Purely Purity
Somebody has quite a sweet tooth but somehow managed to share with friends and loved ones. Buen provecho..
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Weekend nuptials
My little sister’s mawwidge is this Saturday. All week I’ve been going at a pace I haven’t for some time. There’s preparing for the weekly skewering in class on Thursday, then there’s all the primping and preparing to take care of before leafing town early Friday morning. In this gear, I tend to eat very […]
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A baguette request
Going through more stuff, things, papers and piles. I found an entry I wrote during a trip to Monhegan Island back in, I think it was 01994. It was my second time there to stay with a friend and her family who migrate there every summer to work, paint, cook and do the the things […]
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Very good dogs eat poulet
Sometimes two dogs, especially two poodles, swap notes in misbehaving. Or the same two poodles work out a new routine in waking someone (me) up. Or they learn a new song that they perform in sneezes and coughs to get one’s (that would be me again) attention. Sometimes, they teach each other to sit and […]
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Getting figgy with it
I’ve been up to something this week. It happens to include eating quite a lot of figs. No, I’m not exploring new or revisited options in bulimia. Actually, I can eat fruit for days and suffer no trouble in a certain digestive department. This will be something fun. A friend wrote some code, and I’m […]
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Friday night debate
It’d be a fine night for another anchovy pizza with seltzer or a beer. Buen provecho..
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Naval gazing Thursdays
Journalism is kicking my @$$. Though today’s class was abbreviated; TH had to fly off to some place and sent class on a field trip to the library for a meeting with the journalism subject librarian to review databases and resources for new journo grad students. I attended a similar session last January with the […]
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Creating a World that can Feed Itself
Michael Pollan sat on a panel last week with Sonal Shah, a development expert at Google.org and Hugh Grant, the CEO of Monsanto. He e-mailed a link to the video; it’s available here:
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Woolly forecast
I captured the little fella after nearly rolling over him with my horseless carriage. Yes, I am a mad swirver when avoiding critters, assorted vermin, even and especially long-legged rats on the road. I never fully recovered from when, during my days on the help-turtles-even-snappers-cross-the-road force, I hit one. Though I was never sure if […]
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Chick roastin’ roast chicken
Today’s headline brought to you by the letter Q. It is the first day of autumn today, and I’m ready for it. After driving back from Mum’s in the Finger Lakes, I went straight to my dearest Fairway for provisions to make a roast chicken with carrots, red and white baby potatoes and Brussels sprouts. […]
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Gleaning or stealing?
I spotted an apple tree full of little apples. It stands unattended near the end of my Mum’s road. But I wondered for a day or two, is it okay to take some. They are just sitting there. Is the tree on private or public land, right there near the curb of the road.. On […]
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One good meal lakeside
The red night sailors delight was a bit misleading. The next day turned out to be grey, not rainy; the heavy atmosphere slowed everyone down.. Or were we still digesting from the moules and clams in the tastiest homemade moules brodo this side and even west of the Miss iss ippi.. Girl, C’s moules and […]
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Hindu beef
I’m only reluctantly returning to this post. I ate this meal at a Korean restaurant in midtown. It was a fine enough meal. Tasty. But it was disturbing for me. My dear sister-friend from India now eats beef. She had been to the same restaurant once before with a colleague of ours, who harks from […]