http://www.culiblog.org Food, food culture, food as culture and the cultures that grow our food Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:56:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Weak, Polar Circle light illuminating a dried pear Thanks for bringing those most tasty and juicy pears to the food co-op last pickup day. We bought 4 kilos and the next day had already eaten an entire kilo! The last 3k we dried because they were threatening to go soft. Just ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/11/dear-annet/ A spore print, probably of an agaricus arvensis. What an exuberant spore print, probably of an agaricus arvensis, or maybe an agaricus campestris, possibly an agaricus bitorquis, or if I'm lucky, an agaricus silvicola. They're all edible. Still, most likely it's a horse mushroom, agaricus arvensis. I found it along the ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/11/the-spore-report/ The author's fridge, filled with home-ferments, foraged, syruped, home grown greens, raw milk and vodka! At the moment my fridge is filled with the bubbling product of home-fermented foods, lots of home grown and a visit to milk lady at the farmer's market. A few days earlier Mark Menjivar's photo essay ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/09/a-fridge-eye-view-of-urban-agriculture/ Dutch text below is not a direct translation. Imagine this: you're an internationally recognised Dutch cultural institution of art/design/media culture. You have a substantial collection; media art, landscape art, but also paintings/ sculptures/ installations/ photography/ film/ design objects/ and artist-activist works in the public space that regenerate your city's ill-planned urban ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/06/this-weekend-massive-dutch-protests-against-the-obliteration-of-cultural-funding/ The Shipwreck Contains the Ship, Urbaniahoeve installation at ARCAM in conjunction with Farming the City Saturday 7 May at 16.00h, is the closing event of the Farming the City exhibition at ARCAM. URBANIAHOEVE's phytoremediation installation on ARCAM island, titled 'The Shipwreck' will be dismantled and distributed to guests. Do not ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/05/phytoremediation-at-arcam-the-shipwreck-contains-the-ship/ Some folks are all talk and no do, but this last year, I've been all do and no talk. Apologies for my extended absence and may this post mark a movement towards striking a balance between the two. Foodscape Schilderswijk: kids initiating the planting of the Wellington Hof Plum Orchard In ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/05/do-and-talk/ To encourage success in completing difficult, unrealistic New Year's resolutions (like daily blogging and yoga practice), I tend to spike my list with easily attainable, readily achievable, things that happen anyway. Usually these resolutions occupy the esoteric slash culinary realm, like learning to brew beer (2011), or the domestic slash ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/01/the-citron-il-cedro-sunshine-of-my-resolutions/ Didn't go to the farmers' market this Saturday (First published 13 September, 2009 under the title: Not piss-poor anymore) One of the reasons I gave my Amsterdam kitchen garden the name Slim Pickins was to show that even a postage stamp-sized garden with a relatively little crop could serve up a surprising ... http://www.culiblog.org/2010/09/pissin-about-the-re-blog/ Our first tamped earth oven lacks some structural-integrity Hey there lovers... of food-system infrastructure, this weekend (June 26 & 27) from 13.00h we will pilot the DIY-Mmmmuseum of Oven Typologies (Dutch acronym is DHZMOT) at Art at the Pool during the Sloterplas Festival in Amsterdam. (Links are in Dutch, unfortch.) Tamp 500 ... http://www.culiblog.org/2010/06/diy-mmmmuseum-of-oven-typologies/ Shrine of *Chametz in the foyer belies the seat-of-the-pants factor of Pesach-ultra-lite. This is me nullifying my chametz. And here's another question for tonight: What kind of gawd would ask us to throw out locally grown soft whole wheat flour from the ancient fields of Osdorp? Happy Passover, y'all. * - Chametz ... http://www.culiblog.org/2010/03/chametz-shrine/