slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Slow Food
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Yesterday was a wonderful day, all day long. I restrained myself at the Farmers’ Market – bought a whole hen which took most of my money, milk, popcorn cornmeal, and strawberries. I’ll put the hen in the slow cooker today. The mulberries that grow along the creek there are huge, sweet, and extra delicious. I…
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Today has been very pleasantly busy. It’s not often that I don’t turn on the computer until late afternoon! It began early this morning when I picked up the Fabulous Zha K on our way to Carrboro (siamese twin sister city of Chapel Hill) to buy some compost bins at a fabulously low price. I…
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Received the following email, as well as a disturbing one yesterday that rumoured conservative Democrats were backing pro-industrial anti-sustainable people for deputy secretary of ag, so your input is VERY VERY important! Tom Vilsack was a huge disappointment, but hopefully he would be balanced and influenced by sustainable advocates. At least we can say we…
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Seven incredible food activists and writers on one stage at Slow Food Nation: Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Eric Schlosser, Carlo Petrini, and Corby Kummer. Wendell Berry, as always, is a fount of wisdom and is not to be missed. Corby Kummer is a wonderful moderator and his exchanges with Carlo Petrini…
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I’ve been quiet lately. I haven’t felt the urge to express myself in words. It’s partly that I don’t feel like getting on the computer after spending so much time at work and in class on the computer, which makes it tough to do homework. It’s partly that I’m depressed with a resurgence of grief…
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This food porn is brought to you by Slow Food USA. Photos are from the “Come to the Table” dinner at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Thursday, August 28.
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And yes, I do have an excellent Dry Jack cheddar from Slow Food Sonoma to go with this whine, but I’ll save it for when I can manage not to sneeze all over it. The good news is that I’m fairly lucid now, the bad is that I’m a walking muck machine. I must have…
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Yes, I’m home! San Francisco and Slow Food Nation was absolutely wonderful, but unfortunately I came home very sick. I look forward to uploading photos and sharing this week. I brought home lots o’goodies from the Ferry Market folks. I was able to get autographed books from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, Corby Kummer and Carlo…
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We got lucky in Greensboro yesterday – two lines of intense storms passed to our north and south, making the temperature cool enough to be bearable at the outdoor wedding I attended in Brown Summit late in the day. It was a particularly beautiful and joyful wedding, I thought. The couple went all out for…
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I never knew that part of the pleasure of canning my own food would be the pops that the jars make after they come out of the boiling water bath. It shows that the jars have sealed. Five pint jars of watermelon rind pickles, one jar with half watermelon rind and half cherries, just for…
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