Weekend Linkages: Smoking Chickens

September 26, 2021

...gotta stop looking at Twitter but that’s where you find images of smoking chickens. Is that a dishwasher or a Hindu temple? Inside kitsch pomo masterpiece Cosmic House (Thanks for the link Nic!) One Work: Gelatin’s The B-Thing Meet Thatcher Wine: the ‘celebrity bibliophile’ you didn’t know you needed The Last Glimpses of California’s Vanishing Hippie Utopias (Thanks Daniel for the link!) How To Build Your Own Trippy Meditation Pod Insects are van...

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Saturday Linkages: Big Chickens, Drought and More

Mr. Homegrown

October 4, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...witter.com/rootsimple/status/516669379421798401 Frightening RT @voxdotcom: Chickens have gotten ridiculously large since the 1950s: http://t.co/8dRdrDiXXw pic.twitter.com/7vEYJGEVqC #CivilEats — Susan Marquis (@susanlmarquis) October 4, 2014 https://twitter.com/rootsimple/status/517828609382174720 https://twitter.com/rootsimple/status/517823771562885120 https://twitter.com/rootsimple/status/516611839078043648 https://twitter.com/rootsimple/status/...

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Chicks, Mayonnaise and Personal Responsibility

Mrs. Homegrown

June 12, 2014

Animals, Chickens, Food, Thoughtstylings

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...ou may be able to keep your own laying hens, as we do. This is why we keep chickens–to enjoy eggs without guilt. You may even be able to raise meat chickens, depending on where you live. Just be aware when buying chicks from a hatchery or feed store that if you buy sexed females it is possible that their brothers were all killed at hatching. It depends on the breed you’re buying. If it is a dual purpose breed, rather than an egg production breed,...

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Lila Downs Video Showing Tortilla Making in Oaxaca

Mr. Homegrown

April 10, 2014

Food

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...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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New Project: Making Bitters

Mrs. Homegrown

December 16, 2013

Domesticus, How-to

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...I’ll share the recipes I develop as I follow this path. In the meanwhile, making your own bitters is really easy. You may be able to throw a few experiments together just using things you find in your spice cabinet. Since these are flavoring, not medicine, you don’t have to be as careful with the quantities and timing as you must be when tincturing herbs for medicine. Yet at the same time, it’s a great introduction to that essential herbalist’s c...

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