Weekend Linkages: Curry, Cats and Palm Trees

May 12, 2024

...How to Make Japanese Curry Roux Michigan woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker Don’t be a palm, be an oak Happy Eurovision to those who celebrate Cat chase POV Cats with checkbooks...

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Weekend Linkages: Toilet With a View

Mr. Homegrown

May 19, 2024

Saturday Linkages

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...How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat The life of a simple man who lives quietly alone in an old house DreamSpaces on Instagram...

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Weekend Linkages: A Turgid Leviathan

Mr. Homegrown

May 26, 2024

Saturday Linkages

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...A Journey to Avebury, a short film by Derek Jarman A friend recommended Indian recipe website Erfurt latrine disaster How to avoid ultra-processed foods Guide to Middle Eastern food How The World’s Rarest Pasta Came Back From Near Extinction...

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Tuesday Morning Fruit Linkages

Mr. Homegrown

September 2, 2008

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We’ve been reading Adam Leith Gollner’s entertaining book The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession and Gollner mentions a number of intreguing internet resources, perfect for a little post holiday weekend surfing: More than you ever wanted to know about the world’s smelliest fruit: Durian (Durian Palace) The California Rare Fruit Growers, “Pushing the Limits of Fruit Growing, Worldwide” (CRFG) The world’s largest f...

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Weekend Linkages: Lock Me

Mr. Homegrown

November 26, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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...Turn-of-century Berlin and more on cheerful Art Nouveau postcards ‘Your wife wants to see you’: 18th-century Spanish letters seized at sea by British published online Removing a motorway to bring back the original waterway How to tie a trucker’s hitch...

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