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Growing Your Own Food is Like Printing Your Own Money: Ron Finley’s TED Talk

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Gardening, Thoughtstylings
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Please take a moment and watch gangster/guerrilla gardener Ron Finley’s inspiring Ted talk. I first heard about Ron after he got busted for planting a vegetable garden in what used to be a weed strewn parkway. He’s gone on to plant many more gardens around Los Angeles. The end of this talk really hit home for me, “Don’t call me if you want to sit around and have meetings. If you want to meet with me come to the garden with your shovel so we can p...

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Saturday Linkages: An Egg Shaped Houseboat, Bamboo Joints and the Origins of Umami

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Saturday Linkages
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...dedecker/lowtechmagazineenglish/~3/Zre1F8bEuz4/bicycle-scale-models.html … Food The Origins of Heritage Foods Revivals 1980-1985 http://garynabhan.com/i/archives/2137 Fermenting Mentor: Uri Laio of Brassica and Brine http://wp.me/p1xg32-qw “Umami” Was Coined by the Inventor of MSG to describe Its Taste http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/umami-was-coined-by-the-inventor-of-msg-to-describe-i-693953580 … Why lettuce is making us sick: http://modernfarmer...

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Our New Open Floor Plan

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Design
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...ared them a “death trap.” Then the good natured Will Wallus of the Weekend Homestead came on the podcast to gently defend open floor plans. Naturally, I’m spending this month making our house, gasp, more open. Let me explain. When I installed the floor in the living room in the aughts I discovered an opening that used to exist between our living room and what we use as our bedroom. Back in 1920 this house was a one bedroom with a kind of sitting r...

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Baking Bread with Specialty Malts

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Beer, Bread, Food
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...king and just use malted grains directly in your bread. The grains used in making beer are, mostly, barley that has been malted (sprouted) and then either caramelized or roasted. To make beer you soak the grains in warm water to extract the sugars that form in the malting process. Fermenting that sugary malt water creates alcohol. Most of the grain used to make beer is two or six-row malt. You add so-called “specialty” grains (that have been caram...

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