April 2012
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100 Foods
This list has been circulating on Facebook. Frankly, it’s a bit…dated? With your help, let’s update it.
1. Abalone
2. Absinthe
3. Alligator
4. Baba Ghanoush
5. Bagel and Lox
6. Baklava
7. Barbecue Ribs
8. Bellini
9. Bird’s Nest Soup
10. Biscuits and Gravy
11. Black Pudding
12. Black Truffle
13. Borscht
14. Calamari
15. Carp
16. Caviar
17. Cheese...
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World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD) on May 5, 2012 →
I admit, if I had a bucket list attending a WNGD event would be on it. Unfortunately, while other nude / naturist events are embedded in the Pacific NW cultural year this isn’t likely to be one of them. The avr. high that date is significantly below 70F; see weather.gov . I recommend bookmarking one of these two sites, but which?
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Why #Ukraine echoes #Brazil, but is unlike #China →
But the quality of land is scarcely the sole requisite for agricultural success. Let’s not forget the Holodomor. Still, outside of intentional genocide, there are other risks they can face. Ag Economists still look at ag “success” in the former Soviet states as success for industrial agriculture. That requires legal and financial (including crop risk management) systems, capital...
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The secret to awesome fries. (Or is it?)
The french fry tip below runs counter to everything I learned as an apprentice or have read since. This would make a good high school level food science experiment. Even a good middle school level food science experiment if an adult helped with the actual frying. Any takers?
fridgebook:
Soak the fries in salted water before cooking, this makes the potatoes release their moisture before...
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USDA Accepting Comments on New Approvals for 2,4-D... →
If you farm, or if you are old enough to remember the Vietnam War, you already know about 2,4-D. It is one of the oldest selective dicot (broadleaf) herbicides and one of the best understood. It was associated with dioxin because dioxin-type compounds resulted in significant quantities from some industrial production consequences.
What is not well understood are the economic and sociological...
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Harvard Science & Cooking Lectures - Eat 'Em Up →
I need to make time to listen to several of these. But I’m behind on “The New Girl” episodes. Decisions, decisions….
jtotheizzoe:
Who says you have to get into an ivy league school to experience ivy league awesomeness? Harvard has been teaming scientists up with world-class chefs to deliver lectures on the science of cooking since last year.
And now you can watch them...
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Colbert: The Beefstate Governors →
Reason just can’t top the Colbert Report. I think that we’ve lost the lean, finely textured beef (LFTB) skirmishes for now. Just when I wanted to run “pink slime” on the menu.
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mental_floss on tumblr: The Drunken Uncles of the... →
Well, it sort of relates to digestion.
mentalflossr:
Syrian golden hamsters are—to put it mildly—the drunken uncles of the rodent world. In the wild, these hard-partying hamsters spend their summers gathering and storing fruit as a survival measure. By winter, when they need to break into the stash, the fruit has fermented. Over time, the…
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Whither beef prices? →
A brief but cogent analysis on where beef prices have been in the past two years, and why they may come down sooner than later. Article by H. Harpster in the Western Farmer Stockman
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When Monsanto Does Good... →
Contradictions are so confounding.
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Food Cooking: Gourmet.com →
\]What exquisite workmanship.
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Nigeria: 'Agriculture Remains the Fastest Means of... →
It’s not necessary to read the complete article before launching into the mental exercise. Consider yesterday’s post on urbanization in light of this statement on economic development. Allowing that rural economics in Nigeria may not represent all nations (but certainly seems to represent many) what to the two posts mean when taken together?
fertilizermarkets:
Regular meetings of...
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