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Los Angeles Interior Earthen Plaster Workshop

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Events
...ing and preparation (bagged silica sand screening) importance of aggregate grain variation in plasters finish coat straw selection and preparation (fine chop) finish plaster tool overview and usage strength additive overview, preparation and mixing (wheat paste) earthen plaster finish coat mixing, application with hawk and trowel earthen plaster finish coat surface finishing techniques (sponge, hard metal trowel, plastic trowel) Instruction Type:...

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I Ate 100 Power Bars

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Thoughtstylings
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...d I discover? Turmeric is in everything. Kimchi has gone mainstream. Whole grain has been let out of dietary prison. Patagonia is selling food. Crossfit bros love butter and coconut filled coffee and flavored beef jerky. Bicycles are being used as a symbol of hipness in convention booth displays. “Regenerative agriculture” has been appropriated as the latest buzz-phrase by large food companies. Every natural food product is labeled either “pro-bio...

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Thomas Pynchon on Pizza

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Food, Thoughtstylings
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...a cough remedy, the rennetless cheese reminded customers variously of bottled hollandaise or joint compound, and the options were all vegetables rigorously organic, whose high water content saturated, long before it baked through, a stone-ground twelve-grain crust with the lightness and digestibility of a manhole cover. Pynchon being Pynchon, pizza appears frequently in his novels as a multi-valiant symbol. In Vineland it’s a symbol of the Dharma...

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Art and Grains

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Design, Food, Thoughtstylings
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...y and cafe Friends and Family. Roxana has a new cookbook out called Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution. Just in time for Easter she has posted a recipe from the book for hot cross buns with marzipan crosses. Roxana was a big supporter of the Los Angeles Bread Bakers, a meetup group that I co-founded. It’s been a rough year for restaurants, so consider picking up a copy of her book or, if you’re a local, getting some takeout. Meanwhile...

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