Raw Pork Sandwich Anyone?

...ing continued, my aversion to barfing prompted an extended conversation on food safety that, as usual, left the question of the wisdom of culinary thrill seeking unanswered. Sometimes you just have to have to strap on the wingsuit and visit the raw oyster, fugu and Hackenpeter buffet line. In the case of raw pork the safety issues involve salmonella and, more rarely, trichinosis, which is caused by a nematode. Trichinosis is rare in Germany as all...

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Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

...e world loved you back?” Then they lit up with ideas and possibilities. “Everything would change!” they cried. I agree with Dr. Kimmerer. The world does love us back. It cannot speak, but it shows its love through selfless acts of giving, like a mother. Plants shower us with abundance. They give us food, medicine, textiles building materials, and less material gifts like beauty and solace. They even give us oxygen: their love for us fills our lung...

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How to Rodent Proof a Chicken Coop

...be taken care of with simple sanitation. In my case that meant putting the food away at night and investing in rodent proof feed containers. Every night I put the entire feeder within the trash can you can see in the picture on the right (it has a much more secure lid than the larger can I used to keep the feed in). In the morning I put the food out again for our four hens. It means that I have to get up just a few minutes earlier than I usually d...

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Saturday Tweets: Lost in Translation

...taurants. That’s beginning to change. https://t.co/WpPyyvqKHU — L.A. Times Food (@latimesfood) April 1, 2019 Most people have no idea how much climate damage they’re doing when they fly in planes.https://t.co/eIv5M6mLEC — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) April 2, 2019 I looked at the Spanish websites of the 2020 Dems and found typos, incomprehensible phrases, and whole paragraphs that match Google Translate. As my mother would say, it’s a . Me in @pol...

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Saturday Tweets: A Week of Strange Links

...tps://t.co/F68kuFjikj @NatGeoFood @hdbyrne pic.twitter.com/pZ9nPJ8xEc — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) March 30, 2016 Another cow caught stealing a bicycle…… pic.twitter.com/7gtONxicdn — classicretro (@classicretro) March 30, 2016 We love this idea: “A Car Free LA” by @Terenig https://t.co/jEorOnbUsU — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 28, 2016 Turkeys attacking cops https://t.co/0ouEYPNdoi — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 28, 2016 The Harvard...

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