April 2008
23 posts
I thought I was sick of risotto
but I guess I was wrong. Lauren and I just finished a fava bean, leek, and ramps risotto with some carrot-rich stock. Oh, yellow and green, so pretty.
“I called the Brooklyn Compost Hotline today. It was amazing. 718-623-7290”
100-miles was SO last year
“But a committed breed of urban farmers is challenging even the 100-mile definition of local food. These folks are cultivating their own cornucopia in their backyards and community garden plots, pruning their own fruit trees, raising their own chickens…”
I prune! I chicken!
-“The 100-yard diet” from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Health, poverty and the cellphone
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
from the NY times magazine today: “Text messaging, or S.M.S. (short message service), turns out to be a particularly cost-effective way to connect with otherwise unreachable people privately and across great distances. Public health workers in South Africa now send text messages to tuberculosis patients with reminders to take their medication. In...
I'm on the "totally worth it" side of the fence.
Since pickles as known as a one of the most common cravings among pregnant women, Vlasic Pickles is holding a contest to find a May-born baby to become its official Vlasic Stork Baby of 2008. The winning baby and family will win a $20,000 US Savings Bond, be officially named Vlasic Stork Baby and receive a year’s supply of Vlasic Pickles.
Here’s the kicker: according to the Vlasic...
EIGHTEEN?!?!?
Thoughts from Cathy, of Not Eating Out in New York.
”Ladies and fellas: It is with dreadful anticipation that I kick off the twenty-four hour countdown to what I surely hope becomes the risotto event of the year. Big words, huh? But I am confident that our 18 contestants’ entries will dazzle the crowds; and that our astute judges’ decisions will be wise.”