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So Much Poultry, So Little Time

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Animals, Chickens
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.... -Someone needs to put together an urban version of the 4-H club to bring urban agriculture programs to the inner city. Maybe it’s already been done, but from what I’ve been told urban 4-H clubs are all about nutrition, science fairs, and maybe training guide dogs. Kids desperately need contact with nature and animals. Let’s grow some food! But we may need to hippify the uniforms a bit . . . -When the economy hits the skids people start thinking...

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Sensuous Space: How to Create Romantic, Seductive and Sensuous Settings

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Design
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...e see our first hot tub. The power nexus of the erotic panopticons in this book are, naturally, your disco control centers because your house must have its own private discotheque. I don’t know how you keep the blow from gumming up the electronics. Of course, such idiosyncratic spaces are the domain of the ultra-wealthy who can afford serial remodeling. Reznikoff notes that many of these spaces are second homes. A particular class of nouveau riche...

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Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast

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Bread, Food, Recipes, Reviews
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..., even on the cold day. I really like Forkish’s clear instructions in this book, especially his suggested baking schedules which involve feeding the starter in the morning, mixing the dough in the late afternoon, shaping the loaves in the early evening and proofing the dough in the refrigerator overnight. This schedule is more likely to fit into a normal day, though it can, of course, be modified. The book owes a debt to Chad Roberston’s methods i...

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional: Murakami on Running

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Fitness
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...rce themselves to run. I have no idea if non-runners will enjoy Murakami’s book but its wisdom extends far beyond the usual feel good article in a running magazine and could also be read as a book about writing. Murarkami is in much better shape than I ever was. He can run for miles every day. I can only run, at most, every other day and I have to do considerable work at the gym to prevent injuries. And I’ve had many injuries. These injuries have...

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I Built a Set of Gerritt Rietveld Crate Chairs and So Can You

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Design
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...shelf, can be made with a few hand tools. The rest of the projects in this book would require a table saw and varying levels of skill. The book contains measured drawings for all the projects and tips on how Rietveld did the joinery as well as colors and finishes. If I had a modernist house or office I’d go crazy and make everything in this book. Pro tip: learn even a modest amount of carpentry skills and you can have furniture by famous designers...

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