An amazing array of seed catalogues for 2012!
Come the middle of January each year my mailbox sags as the glorious and seductive seed catalogues come rolling in. The pictures are so beautiful; the descriptions of each veggie and flower so tempting I could spend hundreds of dollars…
Response to Newt Gingrich about ‘poor kids’
My response to the deeply flawed conclusions of Newt Gingrich about ‘poor kids’ is this: Kids cleaning classrooms is wrong if it’s only poor kids doing the cleaning. What follows, for what it’s worth, is a concept I began thinking…
Brrrrrrrrr! Winter is on the way
Let’s hear it for firewood! When it’s time to put the clocks back you know it is really gonna be winter soon! There was a hard frost coating all the lawn and trees this morning. But to give you a…
Have you ever deboned a duck??
Whenever I am up to my wrists in bird insides I think of Julia Child (may her memory ever be blessed!) and that day sometime in the 1960’s when on PBS I watched her debone a duck with her usual…
Our beautiful Hoosier Hutch!
One of the first things we bought together in 1974; I’ve used it ever since and here it is installed in the new house. Some day it will be refinished but for now it’s still wonderfully utilitarian with it’s flour…
A Week of Heritage Harvest
I had a great time in the Monticello kitchen this week. First discussing 19th century foodways with P. Allen Smith for his TV show and then watching food stylist Annette Joseph arrange the bounty of the garden on the kitchen…