(photo from GRG) The blog Green Roof Growers has a nice post about the Greenhouses of Hope at the Pacific Garden Mission. I work here once a week but wasn’t around for the planter project. I did spend most of last Monday sanding down some nice new worm bins, though — so if you’re in the market for a worm … Continued
From the Business section of last Sunday’s NYT, on the recent boom in sales of cheap vodka: Reaching for the Bottom Shelf . (See also: this’n and those’n.) [snip] “Of course, some boutique vineyards and craft distilleries create exceptional beverages, even if the price is sometimes hard to justify. But much of the high-end liquor bubble was … Continued
There’s been a LOT of ink–stained handwringing over the crisis in journalism of late. Some of it is great; some of it is, IMHO, a bit of self-interested windbaggery — on the part of both the old fogies longing for the good ol’ City News Bureau days and the young webheads jacked by the pipe … Continued
I’m pretty sure I last saw Terri Griffith standing outside an all-ages club in Seattle, sometime in the middle of the night circa 1984. Clove cigarettes may have been involved. Last saw, that is, until a few weeks ago when, thanks to the freaky magic of Facebook,* we wound up having lunch at the Wishbone. … Continued
Chuck Sudo over at Chicagoist picks Island Wheat as his “beer of the week.” I’m with him on the cans thing. Tastes much better in cans than bottles.
No time to update blog. Somehow, mysteriously, have found work paying Actual Money. (It turns out it is out there. Who knew? Though of course all the freelance assignments turn up at exactly the same time, on the exact same deadline schedule. At least this way maybe I can take the summer off again.) In … Continued
Mike, over at the Food Chain, notes the growing backlash against vodka — a trend that, I predict, will in a year or so loop around so that shots of clear rail swill become the new hot thing. I quote from the same Sam’s newsletter Sula does: Put this odorless, flavorless spirit in a beautiful frosted … Continued
“Dude. You never update your blog anymore. WTF?” bitched one of my eagle-eyed friends the other day. I tried to defend myself by pointing here and here, but all he shot back with was, “Yeah. You sent people to somebody else’s blog.” What can I say. I’ve been busy. This soup thing has really taken … Continued
When I worked at the Reader it was often hard to find time to go to the grocery store, and in summer I envied my friends their leisurely trips to the weekday farmers’ markets and their hefty Angelic Organics boxes bursting with CSA bounty. Envied, that was, until Vera Videnovich stepped up to the plate. … Continued
Earlier today Hugh Amano — until recently executive sous chef at Uncommon Ground — shot me a link to his new blog, the engaging, self-explanatory, and very of-the-moment, Food on the Dole. Needless to say I signed him up to make soup.