Can Whole Wheat Solve the Wheat Allergy Problem?

...ne seems to have. What’s sets Ponsford apart from most other bakers is his commitment to the health of his customers. You will find no white flour at his Northern California bakery Ponsford’s Place. All of the breads and pastries he showed us how to make were made with whole wheat flour. While he does use some white sugar, he uses it very sparingly. Like most bakers he’s in a difficult position in our anti-gluten era. While acknowledging gluten se...

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A Simple Beer Can Stove

...http://vimeo.com/64726512 There’s lots of variations on the beer can stove out on the interwebs. This is a nice one in that it can be made with just a pocket knife as opposed to the more complicated Pepsi can stove we blogged about back in 2006. If you have a favorite stove project leave a comment . . . Via the folks at Zapf Architectural Renderings....

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When the Crate’s Better Than the Chair

...eld put it, “A piece of furniture made of high-grade wood and manufactured completely according to traditional production methods is transported in a crate to avoid damage…no one has ever ascertained that such a chest embodies an improvised, highly purposeful method of carpentry…there must therefore at long last be someone who chooses the crate rather than the piece of furniture.” You can bet our next book will have some Rietveld inspired DIY desi...

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Polyculture

...ecret is in choosing plants with staggered harvesting times, so they don’t come in all at once, overwhelming you and competing with each other for space, and also in choosing plants that are not all from the same families, so they don’t compete for the same nutrients. The beans in the polyculture above help replenish the nitrogen in the soil that the other plants drain out. Very clever. With little effort compared to normal gardening, you will be...

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