Saturday Linkages: Pallets, Ladybugs and Portlandia

August 30, 2014

...chicks wearing muffin wrappers as tutus! http://www.recyclart.org/2014/08/little-chicks-wearing-muffin-wrappers-tutus/ … The Flight of the Ladybugs http://www.theawl.com/2014/08/the-flight-of-the-ladybugs … The Portlandia Activity Book http://boingboing.net/2014/08/25/the-portlandia-activity-book.html … World made by bigots http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-08-27/world-made-by-bigots … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter:...

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028 Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes

Mr. Homegrown

December 10, 2014

Podcasts

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...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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My Favorite Podcasts

Mr. Homegrown

March 2, 2015

Podcasts

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

Mr. Homegrown

July 6, 2015

Food

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...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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George Rector: M.F.K. Fisher’s Dirty Old Uncle

Mrs. Homegrown

February 11, 2016

Recipes, Reviews

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...or, c.1937. Rector (1878-1947) was a restaurateur and popular author. This book is ostensibly a cookbook–I don’t know what else it would be–but it doesn’t have recipes per se. Instead, he just mentions how to cook things as he’s steaming along. I’m in love with the hardboiled yet strangely comforting prose (though I do have to ignore the casual sexism and racism of the period). Seems most cookbooks these days range from bland to, at best, passiona...

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