Saturday Tweets: Food, Simple Living and Bikes

...tus/530835488534306817 The Best Thing About a Bike-Friendly City Isn’t the Bikes — It’s the City http://t.co/WGVeHxDQmR via @StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 7, 2014 The Health Benefits of Simple Living (Erik chimes in at the end) http://t.co/m7juWtdPJJ via @usnews — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 5, 2014 Let him that would move the world first move himself. -Socrates — Ancient Wisdoms (@AncientWisdomss) November 4, 2014 Coo...

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Saturday Tweets: Compacted Soil, Bikes and Mirrored Headboards

...op-ed "My vision of a livable city is one where kids like me can ride our bikes" https://t.co/7ONQEdWXAe — Jennifer Dill (@JenniferDillPSU) March 25, 2016 Like a Green Juice, but Boozy https://t.co/YEDKKWDaYY pic.twitter.com/aIDMNeMsni — Emily Han (@misschiffonade) March 25, 2016 Cool primitive technology site: https://t.co/UNyvtYOGgb — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 25, 2016 With fewer winter 'chill hours' due to #ClimateChange, some #C...

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Moms On Bikes

...bike. I’m guessing this must be sometime around 1968. My mom liked to ride bikes, an unusual activity for adults in Southern California in the 1960s. She took me all over Culver City this way until one day when we took a tumble, probably caused by a pothole. I vaguely recall a long haired and bearded young man helping us off the pavement (that I can remember “hippies” shows how old I am). None of us were injured but it shook up my mom enough that...

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Los Angeles: Swag Town USA

...ty or so contest winners who bothered to attend shuffled off to load their bikes into their SUVs and drove home where, we suspect, many of the bikes will just sit in the garage. The handful of speakers who kicked off the event included representatives from the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, the MTA, the Department of Transportation, Bicycling Magazine, and a former Bike Town USA contest winner from Irvine. Unless I missed something, none of...

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Lila Downs Video Showing Tortilla Making in Oaxaca

...ngeles Bread Bakers sent me a link to this music video that shows tortilla making in Oaxaca. The song is “Palomo Del Comalito” (Dove of the Comalito) by Lila Downs. Note the huge corn tortillas, proof of the regional diversity of Mexican cuisine (and one of the many details I got wrong in my tortilla press post–thanks for the corrections Gloria). Lyrics in English after the jump. The beautiful people of this land Grind corn A miracle of their hand...

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