Saturday Tweets: Parsley Poodle Sandwich

July 13, 2019

...https://t.co/AQdn2mRYWB — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) July 9, 2019 A new book I contributed to is out today! It’s an update to the 2006 book Vegetarian Sports Nutrition- which if you know me you know I recommended it often. Honored to have worked on this updated version. It’s PACKED with all the info you need.https://t.co/ow1PV9zdKv pic.twitter.com/XU5xwKrRUs — Matt Ruscigno (@MattRuscigno) July 12, 2019 The Pentel Graphgear 1000 Mechanical Penc...

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Use Your Microwave as Dough Proofing Box

Mr. Homegrown

December 14, 2023

Bread, Fermentation, Food

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...bread baking after a pause, specifically making whole wheat breads. If you’d like to try baking yourself, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I highly recommend the Josey Baker Bread book. Why? It’s to the point, beginner friendly, has a lot of whole grain recipes, and is the book most likely to help you develop a regular bread baking habit....

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Why I’m Growing Vegetables in a Straw Bale

Mr. Homegrown

May 29, 2019

Gardening, Straw Bale Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...eds, pots, self-watering containers, straw bales and just plain old by-the-book science-based, extension service advice. Results have ranged from moderately successful to moderately tragic–mostly moderately tragic. Over the years, our vegetable garden has shrunk from ambitious proportions to a tiny 3-foot by 8-foot raised bed filled with tired and expensive potting soil. This past winter (our best season for veggies here in Southern California) I...

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Le Phone Freak

Mr. Homegrown

May 6, 2019

Appropriate Technology

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...ovelist and (superb) podcaster Michael S. Judge has pointed out, Pynchon’s book is eerily prescient, seeming to foresee an era when we’re all monitored and controlled by a enormous electronic loom in the form of the interwebs. Not that I’m in favor of going backwards, but sometimes I can’t help but be nostalgic for my simpler, less mediated, 60s/70s childhood when Western Electric was still around making sturdy, oh-so-beige gadgets like this thing...

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Epic Rants and Raves

Mr. Homegrown

August 4, 2017

Thoughtstylings

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...19th century summer reading? How about Abe Lincoln’s favorite non-fiction book, An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, which tells the story of a crew shipwrecked and enslaved by a Saharan tribe (thank you Futility Closet for the tip on that one). And if you’re looking for more seafaring tales there’s always Two Years Before the Mast. Lastly, if you haven’t read Moby Dick, well, what can one say about a book that spends...

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