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Saturday Tweets: Dumb Appliances, Chinatown Produce,

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Saturday Linkages
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...po12wOLpI — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2017 https://t.co/SKIBofeNZS: Solar Cooking with the Solavore Oven (“Moron’s Mea… https://t.co/gIDicJqrtl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2017 I love how Metro construction downtown has created narrower bike-friendly streets and extra wide pedestrian crossings. Can we keep them? pic.twitter.com/zxe1GfravV — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 3, 2017 The Real Reason Chinatown Produce is Crazy Cheap | SA...

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Stirred, Not Shaken

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Biodynamics, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...ties us to nature and I look forward to stirring preparations and perhaps making them with a few close friends. In fact, I’m much more excited about making preparations than it buying a package through the mail. Steiner’s set of herbs all grow well here and many of them I have already. But a cow is kinda hard to come by in Los Angeles. While it may be heresy to some, perhaps we’ll have to come up with some modifications to the rituals that make s...

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Planting in a Post-Wild World

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Back to the Garden, Garden Design, Gardening
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...with no tall species present. Woodland/shrubland relates to the typical suburban yard where trees and shrubs mix with lawn. The forest is for those lucky enough to have land with stands of trees. Planting in Post-Wild World is not a simple how-to book. In fact, there’s nothing simple about it at all– but it is very clear. Its goals are ambitious, and while it might seem like it was written for designers, it can be used by a determined home gardene...

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George Rector: M.F.K. Fisher’s Dirty Old Uncle

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Recipes, Reviews
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...p. Speaking of befuddled menfolk, Erik is quite fond of this passage about making Hollandaise sauce (from the chapter titled “A Touch of Eggomania”), not least because it has introduced the term “hen fruit” into our lives: For eggs Benedict, you need Hollandaise sauce, an additional contribution of the hen fruit to the pleasures of the palate, and to the confusion of cooks. Hold on to your hats and we’ll round that curve. Add four egg yolks, beate...

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