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Let’s Talk About the Holidays

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Thoughtstylings
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...h, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian or none of the above and be surrounded by inflatable snowmen? And can someone please explain the Bulgarian Christmas procession in the AMAZING video above? What’s with the bread? Who is the black hooded figure? I have to interject here that I’d love to permanently retire the “Rock Around the Christmas Tree” genre of music hell. More bagpipes, please....

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Who Killed the Non-Electric Toaster?

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Bread, Domesticus, Food
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...hort for nickel-chromium) is fragile and extremely vulnerable to an errant bread crust. I vowed to find an alternative and remembered seeing non-electric toasters that people used to use back in the 1920s when our house was built. These types of toasters have not died out entirely. Most non-electric toaster designs look like the one above. Some Googling also led us to an innovative looking non-electric toaster called the DeltaToast. Counter-intuit...

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015 Worm Composting and Skunks

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Bread, Composting, Food, Gardening, Pests, Podcasts, Vermiculture
...ing adventures. What are we reading Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof. Bread: A Global History By William Rubel. Kelly mentions Werner Herzog’s Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A do...

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There Will Be Kraut–Lecture on Fermentation at the Historic Greystone Mansion

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Events, Fermentation, Food
.... Erik Knutzen, co-author of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World, will give an overview of the world’s fermented foods and discuss how you can make your own. He’ll cover everything from sauerkraut to pickles to sourdough bread to the great kombucha controversy to the health benefits of fermented foods. He may even discuss arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen’s untimely death from eating fermented auk meat. The ev...

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