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Liked a tweet (Twitter) Many people have been using quarantine as a time to perfect their bread or coffee making skills, but I personally have taken this as an opportunity to make increasingly...
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Read Eat This Newsletter 132: Underserved by Jeremy Cherfas (buttondown.email) Hello The main conclusion I draw from this week’s selection of goodies that that when you really think about things, they...
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Read Matriarch of Northwest apple industry passes away at age 194. Not a misprint. (opb) Historians say the multibillion dollar fruit industry in the region began with the 194-year-old tree, which...
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Read ‘I was selling honey to survive.’ Then Mel Gibson threatened to sue (The Irish Times) Chilean teacher receives cease and desist letter after using actor’s image in branding
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Read - Want to Read: Cornucopia: A Source Book of Edible Plants by Stephen Facciola (Kampong Publications) Complete reference and source book of edible plants of the world, invaluable to gardeners,...
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Read The Very Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe (The Kitchn) Growing up, I thought there was only one way to make a chocolate chip cookie. You started with the yellow bag of Nestlé Toll House...
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Acquired Bunch-of-Chicks Measuring Set (Cost Plus World Market) * 4 measuring spoons, 1 measuring cup * Egg stores spoons when not in use Gift from Lucy I’m not sure how accurate the measuring cup or...
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Bookmarked The Hibernator (Aaron Parecki) Source Portobello in Portland Ingredients 2 oz bourbon 1 oz Nocello 3/4 oz sweet vermouth bitters This seems interesting, but is it worth hunting down the...
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Watched "Good Eats: The Return" The House That Dripped Chocolate from Food Network | SlingTV A cook (Alton Brown) buys an old candy cookbook only to discover that it's cursed. Every time he makes a...
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Read From Bean to Brew: The Coffee Supply Chain (Visual Capitalist) How does coffee get from a faraway plant to your morning cup? See the great journey of beans through the coffee supply chain....
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Read A Skeptical Farmer’s Monster Message on Profitability by Chris Bennett (AG Web) Adam Chappell was a slave to pigweed. In 2009, several years prior to the roller coaster rise and fall of commodity...
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There’s a deep irony to me that an online journal about farms, agriculture, livestock, and crops doesn’t have any (RSS) feed coverage.
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Mixed up a new batch of sauerkraut for the fall. I can’t wait, but patience is the key here.
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Liked a tweet (Twitter) I ran the McBroken data through the Spatial Equity Data tool. https://t.co/ABh1L7fFZA It found McDonalds are slightly overrepresented in white areas (first image) while...
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Great two page Illustration from an old copy of Trader Vics Book of Food and Drink
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Read Padma Lakshmi’s New Food Show Is a Trojan Horse by Sophie Gilbert (The Atlantic) “Taste the Nation” is breezy in tone, but it exposes the betrayals at the heart of “American” cuisine.
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Bookmarked Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi (TV Series 2020– ) (Hulu) With Padma Lakshmi, Preet Bharara, Vera Chan-Waller, Scott Chang-Fleeman. In Taste the Nation, award winning cookbook author,...
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A sure sign you might have found a solid cook book: when the recipe for clafoutis uses the word liason. Meanwhile, blend the eggs with the flour and the remaining 2 oz/57 g sugar to make the liason.
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Read Why experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves (Quartz) Covid-19 has drawn new attention to indoor air pollution. Science has long considered gas appliances to be key...
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Bookmarked Welsh Cakes (King Arthur Baking) Walking the line between pancake and biscuit, these soft, tender cakes are studded with raisins and showered with cinnamon-sugar.
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Bookmarked Traditional Welsh cakes recipe (BBC Food) Welsh cakes are a traditional tea-time treat that are really easy to make. Eat them warm from the stove, or store in an airtight container for up...
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Read The History of Welsh Cakes (welshbaker.com) Welsh Cakes originate from the country of Wales in Great Britain. The cakes are a cross between a cookie, a scone, and a pancake but they are truly...
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Read Welsh Cakes (Lovefoodies) An old family recipe, traditionally served warm, simply with a little butter on the tops!
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Read Traditional Welsh Cakes Recipe (The Daring Gourmet) Unforgettably flaky, tender, melt-in-your-mouth texture with sweet currants and aromatic mace, these traditional Welsh cakes are simply...
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Read Discover the Many Uses of Mace (The Spruce Eats) Mace is an aromatic spice used in baked goods as well as savory dishes. Learn about its culinary uses and how it's closely related to nutmeg.
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More experimenting with Welsh cakes this morning. I think I’ve settled at baking them on a pizza stone at 450° F for three minutes a side. They come out far nicer and it seems closer to a traditional...
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Lacking any beer in the house, I’m happy to report that substituting a bit of milk and a shot of Jack Daniels managed to be a happy substitution in the Welsh rarebit for lunch today.
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Liked a tweet (Twitter) how to start a bakery:- get into tech.- lose all hope.- start baking.— atavik (@atav1k) April 22, 2021
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car ta·co noun, /kär/ /ˈtäkō/ 1. a taco purchased specifically for eating in the car, often when picking up carry out, usually such that others in the ordering party are unaware of the item’s...
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Quoted Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg (Penguin Press) You don’t make a bagel by first baking a bialy and then punching...
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Read Introducing the HyperText Coffee Pot by James Gallagher (James' Coffee Blog) I was thinking about how I could mix coffee and technology. After some thought I remembered the Hyper Text Coffee Pot...
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Replied to a thread by Eleanor Konik and Aitor García Rey (Twitter) Yeah I'm happy to hand-import edge case things, I'd be very very happy with "75% of the internet's recipes can be imported into...
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Listened to Grain and transport As wheat travelled, it created the modern world by Jeremy Cherfas from eatthispodcast.com Cereals provide their offspring with a long-lived supply of energy to power...
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Replied to Commonplace Book, a Verb or a Noun? by Aaron Davis (Read Write Respond) Whenever I read about the various ideas, I feel like I do not necessarily belong. Thinking about my practice, I never...
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Acquired Oranges by John McPhee (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux ) A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept...
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Martha Stewart’s Cooking School series is a rather nicely structured introduction to cooking. I enjoyed her presentation on creating stocks, but there’s an odd double entendre about taking stock tips...
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I’ve decided it’s time to up my pastry 🥐 and bread 🍞 game, and I’ve found some local Los Angeles suppliers for whole grain. Anyone with experience have recommendations for their favorite grain mills?
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I saw hundreds of images of the eclipse today, but none remotely similar to mine. While thinking back on how I imaged the eclipse with my “pinhole colander camera”, I realize that so much of my life...
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