Three California Natives that Double as Culinary Herbs

...has a phenomenal herb blend that uses all three of these herbs combined with some garlic salt. I made a batch last week and have already used it on salmon and popcorn. You can find that recipe on page 158 of his amazing book The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir. I also strongly suggest taking one of Pascal’s classes. Save...

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Happy Cranksgiving

...based on any research since their probably isn’t any. When you see a multi page list of directions for “model airplane facilities” you know they are winging it. Again, the solution is simple. In a surge like we’re having right now, close everything except what we need to survive and pay everyone to stay home until we can get the numbers down. Do this periodically until we get vaccinated. Let’s Cancel Thanksgiving Permanently Capitalism, as Mark Fi...

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The Museum of the American Cocktail

...ou do a tasting of 20 bottles or the next day won’t be all that productive. If you’re interested in MOTAC’s Los Angeles events you can sign up at the bottom of their page here. As a generalist (to a fault) I have really enjoyed meeting MOTAC’s expert cocktail enthusiasts....

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Saturday Tweets: Architectural Screw-Ups, Road Diets and Pet Dragons

...story here: https://t.co/dTN60J6Abv — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) January 11, 2018 The average kid can identify 1,000 corporate logos and… 10 species of plants. https://t.co/Rr3YBJH9pU — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) January 11, 2018 Cartoon from 1906 predicts our obsession with smartphones https://t.co/p8TvygdViD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 9, 2018 When your pet dragon gets pissed off at you [BnF, Fr. 242, 15th c.] pic.twitter.com/Neu...

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