Pumpkin Spice Apocalypse

...will go bad or you won’t know how best to prepare it. Rotate through your food stocks and you’ll know what foods you like and save money while you’re at it. The weekend had a Road Warrior vibe when it became obvious that many or our neighbors had evacuated to somewhere with power, either relatives houses or a hotel. It felt like a preview of future climate uncertainty and a sober reminder of the tasks we have to prepare. At least we have kind nei...

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A happy tangle

...t our ripe, ruby red pomegranates, which, when they split open, are also a food source for the birds. It’s hard to describe, and pretty much impossible to photograph, this cheery, eye-popping chaos, but we enjoy it, and the cats are entranced. While I’ve sometimes wondered if it is right to keep a feeder in our yard, I feel good about it as of now, because we are providing other sources of forage as well. We let our plants go to seed. We don’t spr...

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Saturday Tweets: Scary Gelatins and Flesh Eating Screwworms

...bout relational approaches to issues like #climatechange, which I summarized in @NewRepublic https://t.co/UdWXH3uPYP — Faith Kearns (@frkearns) October 18, 2016 10 facts you might not know about Food Waste: https://t.co/35NuLW88tg #foodtank pic.twitter.com/BSF4mvmQX5 RT @Food_Tank #foodwaste — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) October 18, 2016 What Will Break People’s Addictions to Their Phones? https://t.co/VHU1OjHuYG — Root Simple (@rootsimple)...

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Saturday Tweets: A Solar Powered Blog, Caravansaries, Moths and Michaelmas

...things edible, he will be deeply missed. pic.twitter.com/bOzcaZUDeE — Slow Food L.A. (@slowfoodla) September 24, 2018 Ernest Miller Memorial Fund https://t.co/WygShXg1fl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 26, 2018 It's Michaelmas and let's not forget its the feast day of St Michael and 'All Angels'. So here are some photos of the Orders of Angels portrayed on the exceptional early 15th-century rood screen at Barton Turf in Norfo...

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On Moldy Jam

...ficial fungal cultures as well as toxic ones that can develop on preserved foods. In short, our understanding of food safety issues of these types of fungal-preserved foods is evolving and complex. However, while fungal cultures are intrinsic to the preservation of certain foods such as blue cheeses, fungal cultures don’t belong on jam. The restaurant has since promised to follow food safety practices regarding the product they package as well as...

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