086 The Connection Between Cats and Grain

June 1, 2016

...the same part of the world where people first figured out how to grow and store grain? Would we have bread if we didn’t have cats? In this podcast Kelly and Erik explore the ancient history, famous cats and take a detour into the world of distillery cats and ship’s cats. Special thanks to Paul Koudounaris, whose lecture inspired this podcast, and the website Purr-n-Fur for information on ship’s and distillery cats. Many thanks to our Patreon subs...

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How to Design and Fabricate Homestead Projects

Mr. Homegrown

January 14, 2016

Design

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...akes place entirely on this bare-bones set: A trip to a high end furniture store yielded a contemporary example of this “outline” or “ghost” strategy, in this case a fire log holder: Sketchiness With these ideas in mind I proceeded to the next step: doodling. As tempting as it is to dive straight into Sketchup, it’s best to draw stuff out on paper first, otherwise you risk letting that 3d modeling program turn you into a “tool of the tool.” I’m no...

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Too Good to Go?

Mr. Homegrown

July 6, 2023

Food

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...u see something appealing you reserve and pre-pay. When you show up at the store you display a code on your phone and they hand you a bag of food. You don’t get to choose, so the bag is a surprise which adds to the addictiveness of this app. In our hipster neighborhood Too Good to Go’s offerings center around cafes, so you mostly get pastries and bread but you can also find vegan groceries and Armenian flat breads. Until recently, we would eagerly...

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How to Make Stock

Mrs. Homegrown

June 19, 2014

Food, How-to

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...set up of some kind to separate the cooked bits from the broth. I like to store my stock in canning jars, so I use a canning funnel with a strainer nested inside of it, and pour the hot stock directly into the jars. If you’re not going to use your stock within a few days, freeze it. A few things you probably don’t want in your stock Though I say there are no rules, some veggies have strong flavors that will really dominate the stock, and maybe ta...

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A William Morris Pilgrimage

Mr. Homegrown

November 9, 2022

Design

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...loped Russia. In the U.K. and U.S. we got, instead, consumer culture. The revolution Morris worked towards never came to pass because, as Herbert Marcuse put it, If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is a attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance...

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