Saturday Tweets: Eating Crickets and Making Coffee

.../t.co/JoT6NiV3x8 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 15, 2015 We love this book by @ThomasRainerDC – the very best book on landscape design! https://t.co/cCIJ2a99mJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 14, 2015 Architectural Cast Concrete: Wall Caps, Column Caps, and Fireplace Hearth and Mantel http://t.co/2vkxERYxbq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 14, 2015 Kelly declares that–thanks to global warming–pants are now completely optional. #glassis...

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Shakerato (Why don’t you come to your senses?)

...d-down version of the one I found in obsessive cocktail guru Dave Arnold’s book Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail. So far I’ve only allowed myself to check Liquid Science out of the library. I fear that if I owned it I would fall down a deep mid-life crisis cocktail hobby hole involving some of the gadgets and ingredients Arnold details in the book: $8,000 centrifuges, canisters of liquid nitrogen and potentially haz...

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My Favorite Podcasts

...ole and Victorian children’s author Favell Lee Mortimer’s offensive travel book. In Our Time Host Melvyn Bragg corrals a posse of academics to discuss topics in history, religion and philosophy. When guests drop big words like “hermeneutics” and “teleology,” Bragg always brings them down to earth and makes them explain things in plain English. This show has filled in many gaps in my education and functions as a reminder that not all of the media i...

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028 Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes

...ding Radical Homemakers, Long Way on a Little and The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook. She has a new book of essays called Homespun Mom Comes Unraveled, a smart, funny, moving account of the challenges and joys of living the DIY life. Shannon also raises grassfed livestock on her family’s Sap Bush Hollow Farm. You can find her books (in both hard copy and ebook formats) and farm products on her website, theradicalhomemaker.net. During the podcast we dis...

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Saturday Tweets: Cheap Heaters, Paper Airplanes and Lost Ornaments

...ps://t.co/n4IvJEytGn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 3, 2015 Gorgeous book of paper airplanes collected by anthropologist Harry Smith https://t.co/GFtA3w8rUO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 3, 2015 It’s time for food justice in Ramona Gardens https://t.co/SoXTBK27L0 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 3, 2015 Beautiful, free/open 3D printed book of lost Louis H. Sullivan architectural ornaments https://t.co/IPgqsjSELq — Root Simple (@ro...

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