Blettes noires pour Yves
October 13, 2006
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Sometimes it’s nice to eat really dark food.
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Make yer own dang
weed butter
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The fresher the better, but this ball of dried leaf, brought home from the friends’ Friesche farm, will do just fine. Remerçi, Madame!
Of course you can substitute any old weed in this weed butter recipe, but I’m old fashioned and just like to use weed. The culinary reasoning behind making butter is that it is more neutral in flavour than filling your fine cooking with loads of bulky chaw. You can use weed butter exactly as you would butter, substituting it in all recipes that you deem appropriate. Be good and make sure that everyone tasting your weed cuisine is acutely aware of what they’re about to ingest. If you make an alternative dish without the weed butter, make sure it looks completely different so that people don’t inadvertently confuse the two. Don’t mix this butter with the drinking of alcohol, or the driving of cars.
It’s good practice to know the strength of the butter before offering it in food to others. You’re going to have to test this on yourself first and then use your own best judgement in deciding whether you need to cut it with plain butter in your cooking. Remember that ingested THC is long lasting – up to eight hours. Take it easy and remember that you’re not an eleven year old boy. (Please read more… )
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Get the vault out:
Vote for la Voute!
October 6, 2006
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Image courtesy of La Voute Nubienne.
What does nubian vaulted architecture have to do with food culture? It’s a stretch, but suffice it to say that good cookin’ and eatin’ requires stable communities and a stable kitchens requires a stable roof. My buddies at La Voute Nubienne are among the 13 finalists of the Ashoka-Changemakers Competition on “How to Provide Affordable Housing.” Vaulted homes are an ancient architectural technique, traditionally used in Sudan and central Asia, but until now unknown in West Africa, can accelerate appropriate house-building in the Sahel. The Nubian Vault (“la Voute Nubienne†or VN) technique uses basic, readily available local materials and simple, easily learned procedures. The only major cost is labour, which is great – cash stays in the local economy. Raw materials, are all locally available and more importantly, ecologically sound. In Burkina Faso, trained VN builders are becoming independent entrepreneurs. A voute may be different from a yurt, but voute entrepreneurs get my vote any day.
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Image courtesy of La Voute Nubienne.
La Voute Nubienne initiative has been shortlisted by a panel of five distinguished judges. Now it’s over to us, the online community to vote for three winners. Each voter is required to cast three votes, otherwise your vote will be rendered invalid. This, to ensure fairplay, it’s a prestigious award. The deadline for voting is October 16, 2006. The Changemakers Innovation Award winners will be announced on October 17, 2006.
Cast your vote for La Voute Nubienne and two others right here.
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Image courtesy of La Voute Nubienne.
What’s so special about the VN technique?
- the only raw material used is earth, for making both mortar, and mud bricks dried in the sun
- timber shuttering is not needed to support the vault during construction
the traditional methods have been simplified, and adapted to provide protection during the short but heavy rainy seasons of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Image courtesy of La Voute Nubienne.
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