Outside Magazine / Recovery Foods

They often have articles like this, I liked the text in this one.

Mike Daisey / Apple / TAL

What a story. This Daisey dude did a one man play about how Apple is taking advantage of it's workers, and it caught the ear of TAL, so they put him on. Turns out his story is generally accurate as to working conditions, but he didn't actually see as much first hand as he claimed, so journalism-wise it doesn't cut the mustard, and TAL retracted the episode. So you can't hear the audio off of their website, though I downloaded it before the retraction if anyone is curious to hear it. You can hear the episode in which they talk about the retraction, and this CNN bit explains some, too.

Faux Chicken / Bittman

Now this is an interesting article. I hate fake meat. I think it's ridiculous that someone would rather eat some crappy semi-industrial product that sort of looks and tastes like meat rather than cooking a decent meal with legumes/grains/veggies/whatever. They start out with that opinion. But then they got to thinking that considering real industrial meat is so damn disgusting, weaning people from it in any way possible is worthy. Good read.

5 foods that can change the world

Fairly standard eat local, avoid industrial meat preaching, but it can't be said often enough... Some of the other 5 are a little harder to accept, we shall see.

Curtis Armstrong / Random Roles

Shorter than it could have been - no discussion of One Crazy Summer, for instance. But the Gary Busey story is pretty awesome.

DIY Food / NPR

really nice assortment of things to make. i don't like their (and most peoples') ricotta recipe, but c'est la vie.

Nonnas / NPR

love the picture, story is good, too

Random Food Pics

paella with brown rice. good, not amazing

a Jamie O recipe. pasta with kale green sauce, red sauce and fresh ricotta on the side. i didn't follow his recipe all that closely, and used a food processor instead of a liquidizer (blender). the 'liquidizer' term threw me off... his pic looked amazing. definite potential.

fried rice with lightly steamed broccoli shoots. not from Tassajara Recipe Book... just a little freestylin'
mmmmm. oatmeal skon bread, toasted, with kale pesto. I'm loving kale pesto right now: pecans, no cheese, a little pimiento paste, garlic and kale, obviously.

quickie. wholewheat coucous, goat cheese, red sauce

some sort of dal i think, pimiento paste and green zhoug in the jars

Snow in the front range

Late season storm, pretty damn cold for SB. Rained friday night into saturday. Snow in the front range saturday night, showers off and on sunday, a light dusting sunday night. This is from monday morning.

Miso / Bittman - NYT

interesting ideas

Taming the Bicycle -- Mark Twain

A seller on ebay used a quote from Taming the Bicycle as his email signature, and I tracked down the full essay. It's great!

good Sheed article

man could he ever light up sportscenter highlights. good read.

a Wrinkle in Time / NPR

It was published 50 years ago. I need to read it again!

on Roald Dahl / NPR - On Point

quite lovely

Regulating Sugar / NPR - On Point

darn good show