An indispensible urban tool: the titanium spork

...my bag, a permanent part of my “everyday carry”, and I use when I’m eating food from home as well as in situations where I’d otherwise be forced to use plastic flatware. I love its simplicity and utility. The prongs of the spork are substantial enough to work as a fork, but aren’t hard on the mouth when it’s used as a spoon. I have another so-called spork, not a true spork, if you ask me, but a Frankenstein’s monster with a spoon on one end and a...

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The New Urban Forager

...On a hot, humid day along Houston’s Buffalo Bayou, in the shadow of four abandoned concrete silos, a maggot infested corpse of a pit bull lies splayed across a sheet of black plastic. Nearby, a pile of asphalt roofing material blocks the path I’m taking down to one of the most polluted waterways in Texas. Not a promising beginning to an urban food foraging expedition. (Read the rest of our foraging essay via Reality Sandwich)...

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Saturday Tweets: Danes and Their Garbage, Big Food and #BlackCatAppreciationDay

...nument? http://t.co/BajPa0tpNt — Glen Dake (@GlenDake) August 19, 2015 Big Food is Spending Millions to Lobby for Less Transparency | Civil Eats http://t.co/KU5kxIKUlx — Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) August 19, 2015 Mozz education! . RT @SlowFoodHQ: Mozzarella: 10 Tips to Help you Choose the Real Thing http://t.co/rUzhWijh0d pic.twitter.com/k1V5FxSi0U — Evan Kleiman (@evankleiman) August 19, 2015 Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of favorable research: th...

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Home cooking advice?

...I like this simplicity thing so much, I’m considering booting the Italian food so that I’m only working with one palette. I love Italian food, and there’s plenty of crossover in ingredients with Middle Eastern food– but I love even more the thought of a perfectly streamlined, specialized pantry. (I’m imagining some of you might be saying here, “What about the homemade tortillas you’ve been making? What about all that sourdough bread? That’s not M...

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004 Egg Ethics, Solar Food Dryers and a Question about Earth Ovens

...Erik discuss the tricky ethics of eggs and mayonnaise, what kind of solar food dryer is the best and we answer a question from Ed about earth ovens. Plans for the Appalachian Solar Food Dryer can be found in an article on Mother Earth News. We have a detailed post on how we built our adobe oven here. If you want to leave a question you can call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additi...

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