Food, food culture, food as culture and the cultures that grow our food

Fresh blood?
Let me dispel the myth

February 15, 2010

Endive, dying a little in order to live a little, Debra Solomon, culiblog.org
An endive, dying a little in order to live a lot

Early last week I invited some of my lady posse over for dinner on Saturday. In the spirit of more is more, if only under less auspicious circumstances, I called upon this constellation of girls because not all of them had met, and I titled my invite, Fresh Blood.

Would you believe that every single one of those ladies arrived thinking that there was actually going to be a blood ritual at dinner? Not amplifying.

At the very least they came expecting a performance, or some blood in the food. Meat, maybe? Dang witches all got their noggins a-crankin’ that I would dish them up a challenging, blood-related evening, and they showed up behaving thusly. By the wee hours, one of ‘em had to be forcibly dragged out by her feet!

Way to rock the house, Ladies! I’m openly gloating that you hold my potential for visceral impact in such high esteem, but it’s time I dispel this myth. Fresh blood just means I invited new folk for you to meet.
Behave.
Let’s do it again real soon, K?!

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Working your land
with a heavy hand

February 9, 2010

some things never change…

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Farming with dynamite, a DuPont pamphlet from 1910, lifted from www.fourmilab.ch
Image used entirely without permission.
Thank you Fourmilab.

Dang I can’t wait for my permaculture class to start up again. Just two more nights.

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