http://www.culiblog.org Food, food culture, food as culture and the cultures that grow our food Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:42:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.culiblog.org/2010/02/fresh-blood-let-me-dispel-the-myth/ some things never change... Image used entirely without permission. Thank you Fourmilab. Image used entirely without permission. Thank you Fourmilab. Image used entirely without permission. Thank you Fourmilab. Image used entirely without permission. Thank you Fourmilab. Image used entirely without permission. Thank you Fourmilab. Image used entirely without permission. Thank you Fourmilab. Image used entirely without permission. ... http://www.culiblog.org/2010/02/working-your-land-with-a-heavy-hand/ But not completely; like gardener, like garden. January demonstration of rocket hardiness. While I was back in Northern California complaining that no one heats their homes, here in the Polar Circle the canals had frozen thick. We'd had night frost since the end of November, and until last Sunday this garden was ... http://www.culiblog.org/2010/01/slim-pickins-winter-salad-heq-yeah-were-hardy/ Upended and neglected by one animal forager, arranged and shot for identification by another. In order to secure from landslide the steep incline that cups our house, my father planted it full of trees whose main job in life is to become really large. Something like 30 years ago, he introduced ... http://www.culiblog.org/2010/01/myco-blitz-fruiting-bodies/ Guess you could nail a shingle to any old shoe... On a recent trip to the border between rural and urban Amsterdam I got a look-see into the tamping-technique of Farmer Wim Bijma. He produces organic leafy greens that you can order online and pick up on site. Despite it's reputation, ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/10/the-real-dirt-on-farmer-wims-clogs/ Time to Meet jack o' lantern gifted to the UM dinner by Alowieke of Transition Town Utrecht. When Guus Beumer, artistic director of the Utrecht Manifest: Biennial for Social Design, asked me what I would like to contribute to the 2009 edition, I responded with a programme called Ultimate Meeting. I ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/10/a-time-to-meet-a-time-to-compost-your-jack-o-lantern/ Didn't go to the farmers' market this Saturday 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 amount of food. But the real reason was that it ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/09/not-piss-poor-fertilized-with-pee/ A scenario for planting espallier-style fruit trees in the Schilderswijk. Illustration by Jacques Abelman. As part of STROOM Den Haag’s (Centre for Art and Architecture) multi-year programme FOODPRINT, I have been commissioned to design a foodscape. Actually I am designing a Continuous Productive Urban Foodscape, or CPUF, a spinoff acronym based ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/09/foodscape-schilderswijk-den-haags-cpuf/ Farmer and city slickers assemble in Osdorp On the very westernmost edge of Amsterdam is a living example of rural fantasy, a stone's throw from densely built, urban Osdorp and Geuzenveld/Slotermeer. In preparation for a series of events and future projects in the area, Young Designers & Industry hosted an orientation ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/08/amsterdam-osdorpland-of-milk-and-honey/ I have become that lady who rides around town with bouquets of flowers in her panniers. There's nothing as fine as a soft landing, leaving one garden and falling into the bounty of the other one. Thanks to the generous watering skills of Gabrielle and the plucking skills of Han, ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/08/luxuriating-in-augusts-shaggy-garden/