(Arlo & Janis via GoComics.com) Spent some time yesterday harvesting what will probably be the last full-sized tomatoes of the year, although I’m hoping to eke out a few more weeks with a trickle of cherry tomatoes. On an up note, one of the ‘volunteer’ vines I transplanted from last year’s discarded soil turned out …
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Late Night Open Thread
Could not happen to a more deserving megacorp. From the Washington Post‘s Wonkblog: This time last year, Neil took a look at the strong results from Darden Restaurants, the parent company of such middle-class standbys as Olive Garden, Red Lobster and the slightly more aspirational Capital Grille. The healthy financials hid a sad truth about …
Open Thread: Blessed Are the Cheese-Strainers
From the BBC (h/t commentor Scav): Truly an ancient art, no-one really knows exactly when humans began making cheese. But now milk extracts have been identified on 34 perforated pottery vessels or “cheese-strainers”, which date back 7,500 years that have been excavated in Poland. It is unambiguous evidence for cheese-making in northern Europe during Neolithic …
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This Is Random, I Know
But what the hell happened to the alfalfa and broccoli sprout production in this country? I can’t find the damned things anywhere, and I absolutely love them. I had all the boys over for a big spaghetti and meatball dinner yesterday, and after all that cooking and cleaning, I decided I just wanted to have …
Open Thread: Mark Bittman Likes (Some) Industrial Farming
Interesting article in the NYTimes from a guy who’s been dinged as an anti-modernist crank: I’VE long wondered how producing a decent ingredient, one that you can buy in any supermarket, really happens. Take canned tomatoes, of which I probably use 100 pounds a year. It costs $2 to $3 a pound to buy hard, …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: No Place At the Table
Via Corby Kummer at the Atlantic, who says that after “House Republicans split food stamps off the main package, it’s time to revisit a devastating documentary about hunger in America“: … The idea of the split makes intuitive sense. Anyone who looks at the farm bill for a few minutes–or, like Dan Imhoff, devotes a …
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Friday Recipe Exchange: Cold Salads, Part Deux
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: It’s been over 100 degrees most of this week and when that happens, I want only two things: cold fruits and cold vegetables. Okay and maybe some ice cream, but we already did that post. So it seemed like a good time to revisit cold salads. Coleslaw and pasta were …
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