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Bread and Transformation

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Bread, Fermentation, Food, Thoughtstylings
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...de is from Nancy Silverton’s book Breads from the La Brea Bakery. You use a sourdough starter and at least half the flour must be white to get it to leaven properly. I’ve had great results, but would like to someday make a loaf entirely from whole wheat with a sourdough starter. Reinhart, in his book Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor claims to be able to do just that and not end up with a hockey puck. If you’ve tried his met...

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Go Plant a Million Trees

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Fruit Trees, Gardening, Reviews
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...r emphasis on tree crops instead of clearing land for monotonous fields of wheat, corn and soybeans. He has an interventionist, Johnny Appleseed like passion at odds with the hands-off, leave-no-trace branch of environmentalism. Silver says, “Instead of trying to have as little impact as possible, I want to have a huge impact. I want to leave behind millions of trees, a bunch of ponds, enriched soil and wild stories.” In our own small urban yard,...

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Saturday Linkages: Covid and Non-Covid

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Saturday Linkages
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...t the Toilet Paper Shortage This Pandemic Is Not Your Vacation Take a break from the covid links: Make your own chalkboard paint with Eric of Garden Fork (and send Eric some love–one of his dogs passed on this week) Masoor Dal (Spiced Red Lentils) Recipe Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Fall into a German symbolist interweb hole: Nibelungenhalle and Walpurgishalle Free opera all the time thanks to the Met–watch Verdi’s Mac...

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It’s Official: The End is Near

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Preparedness
...stock, “cookies, licorice, cheese curls, candy bars, french fries, frosted wheat cereal and peanut-butter cups.” GARLAND, N.C.–When Alfred Smith’s hogs eat trail mix, they usually shun the Brazil nuts. “Pigs can be picky eaters,” Mr. Smith says, scooping a handful of banana chips, yogurt-covered raisins, dried papaya and cashews from one of the 12 one-ton boxes in his shed. Generally, he says, “they like the sweet stuff.” Mr. Smith is just happy h...

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FlicFloc Sticker Shock

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Food
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...ste fresher but I can’t prove that. And you can flake other grains such as wheat, rye, barley, millet, spelt, rice, sesame, flax seed, poppy and spices. I can also use the oat groats to make oat flour with my flour mill (another gadget that I’ll cover in another post). Of course, maybe I’m just justifying an expensive euro-trashy kitchen gadget. But before we leave the sphere of oatmeal I’d like to note one nice hack that Josey Baker suggests in h...

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