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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Let’s start at the beginning:

How to say it: And here’s an interesting blog re-post by Dave Stockdale from the San Francisco Chronicle that helps to explain the kinds of food we’ll be providing (along with other essentials, naturally). To those of you who are scratching your heads, wondering what “artisanal” means, and how to pronounce it, hope this helps…

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Free documentary viewing until February 1st!

There’s a great documentary that’s come out called Fresh, featuring commentaries by Michael Pollan and others, and they’re permitting free viewing just until Wednesday, 2/1/2012. It’s really worth the hour and 8 minutes it takes to watch it–regarding the organic and local food movement and the hopeful re-invention of our food system. Please set aside…

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Delayed gratification and a short rib recipe

That’s the theme du jour, it seems– delayed gratification. For those of us who live in cold climates such as ours and only tolerate the frigid weather because of, say, the extreme appreciation it causes us to have for the beautiful weather it flanks or due to family, jobs or circumstances that seem, at the…

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Back from Cuba

It’s been an interesting re-entry back into the USA and one that I didn’t expect would be so profound. This having been my first time in a Communist country, I don’t think I’d really anticipated the affects a communist government really, I mean REALLY has on its people. The thing that struck me most was…

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