We All Have Our Triggers

July 29, 2019

...ews, in today’s New York Times, that executives at Amazon are unaware that vegetables and fruits have seasons, The former head of a major produce company said Amazon told him it wanted to sell marquee fresh items at low prices every day. The executive said he had to explain that certain products, like berries or lettuce, may be available all year thanks to global supply chains, but that they cost more in the off-season. Forcing flat, low prices wo...

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A Celebration of Craft

Mr. Homegrown

September 14, 2017

Bread, Food, Gardening, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening

...e went alphabetically through a list of edible plants she thought were interesting. By the end of the hour, I think she reached the letter “J.” I wished we could have had a few more hours to get to “Z.” And this is another quality of the craftsperson, a selfless enthusiasm that can turn a list of vegetables into something way more interesting than what passes for entertainment in our culture. I’ll see if I can get Doyle on the podcast. We are, I t...

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Olive Questions

Mr. Homegrown

October 9, 2019

Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation, Fruit Trees, Gardening

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...ur brine? How did you season the brine? While my attempt at growing annual vegetables was a disaster this year, let me say how thankful Kelly and I are to have planted fruit trees ten years ago. The most successful: pomegranates, figs and olives. If you’d like to try curing olives, but don’t have any trees of your own, you can always forage them. In the past month I’ve spotted fruiting olive trees in Hollywood on a side street adjacent to the Kais...

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Saturday Linkages: Super Spreader

Mr. Homegrown

July 11, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...ers after lockdown famine Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test Dry Canning Raw Vegetables is an Unsafe Practice ‘Landscape of fear’: what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists Warming trend in California, but most intense heat remains across the interior Southwest. And what about the autumn to come? On the Exceptionalism of Books in an Age of Tweets Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover Experiments in A...

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Eating the Void: On Making a Raw Café Gratitude Chocolate Hazelnut Pie

Mr. Homegrown

September 15, 2021

Food

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...clear I think that we all can benefit from a portion of our diet being raw vegetables. But we also have to acknowledge that our digestives systems have evolved over thousands of years to cooking food. Indeed, there are many foods that don’t release their nutrition unless they are cooked. In addition to this culinary nihilism, the proprietors of Café Gratitude mix into the recipes what Mark Fisher called “business ontology,” that ever present drive...

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