This post started out as a poem with the same title. The poem failed to survive the birthing process. It happens sometimes. I was taken with the line, though, so I ended up with this instead. Years ago I made some comment to my mother about my friends with survivalist bents. She–who in her early [...]
Entries Tagged as 'food'
When the Zombies Come We’ll Eat Quinoa and Jam
May 30th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: food · garden · Los Angeles
The Revolution* will not be trademarked
February 17th, 2011 · No Comments
There’s been a bit of a hubbub online lately about the Dervais Institute’s trademarking of the terms “urban homestead” and “urban homesteading” and their subsequent attempts to get bloggers and organizations to stop using these general terms. This would be totally laughable were it not for the fact that they succeeded in getting the facebook [...]
Tags: food · garden · Los Angeles
In defense of meat (or why your ancestors probably weren’t vegans)
May 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Sustainability is all the rage these days. She who buys the greenest stuff wins (no I won’t comment on the practice of running out to buy the coolest most environmentally friendly widget out there when one could just reuse an old widget or go without widgets entirely). One of the places where this comes up [...]
Tags: food
This is cool, but …
February 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments
The LA Times has a photo spread today on the burgeoning roof garden at Blue on Blue. This is a really cool idea and I do sometimes have fantasies of a restaurant or cafe with fresh garden food from right outside the back door (but before I let that fantasy take up too much head [...]
Tags: food · garden · Los Angeles
The frosting on the math puzzle
November 10th, 2008 · No Comments
So one of the side effects of living with a math/computer geek is that often reading material I would never encounter on my own appears around the house. For instance, Communications of the ACM, which I found open to the last page, title “Puzzled: Circular Food.” Skimming this my attention was drawn to the second [...]
Forget slow food, or local food, let’s talk volunteer food.
September 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I garden. Those who know me personally may have noticed that I have a tendency to fall behind when walking or occasionally drift off during conversations outside. When walking I get distracted by plants, wanting to know what they are. When talking I get distracted by space, start fantasizing about how else it could be [...]
Tags: food · garden · personal
Plea for book/article suggestions
March 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments
Ok, so people who know me know that I’m pretty obsessed with food. I always have been. Fortunately lately I’m obsessed with growing food, cooking food, and exploring new food. This is a great improvement over when I was fifteen and obsessed with the calories in food and how to avoid said food without my [...]
Tags: food · literature
A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.’s Scandalous Coming of Age