Who Wants Seconds? Winner Announced

...s one! Thank you all for entering, and thanks to Jennie for giving us this book to share with you all. We’ve also enjoyed seeing how you all self-identify. Eating has become such a complex, even fraught activity. My grandmother would boggle at discussions like this, I suspect. I don’t think she even knew the word vegan. Since we’ve heard from you all, we’ll share our preferences: We eat mostly vegetarian, but will eat meat if it comes from an impe...

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Analysis Paralysis

...ternet made it worse by providing way too many possibilities. A quote in a book finally broke my analysis paralysis spell. The gist of that quote was that we are all called by a higher power to build. I realized that I needed to set a deadline, get off my ass and construct the raised beds that I had spend endless hours researching, planning and discussing. I told Mrs. Homegrown that this Saturday I was buying lumber and cutting wood. I quickly dre...

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Eat This Blog

...https://youtu.be/J1lZ44dQYmM?si=4t5jZup2cPe6CQSI I have so many questions about this. Was it inspired by Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book? Is it some kind of postmodern meta-commentary on the “death of the author” or some kind of new literary Maenad cult? Watch with discretion or you may fall down a Cathy Mitchell hole and discover her other books such as Dump Dinners and Dump Desserts. Thanks to Jimmy C. for the tip....

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