April 2012
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Nutella Lawsuit: Nutella to Pay Up After Lawsuit... →
Italian confectioner Ferrero, maker of Nutella, must pay out over $3 million to consumers as part of the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that claims the nutty spread has little nutritional value.
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
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“So I urge my colleagues who are looking for places where we need to tighten our...”
– Daily Kos: Gillibrand: These food stamp cuts are “the wrong priority for America”
Kudos to Kirsten Gillebrand
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The dirty truth about messy offices | Unclutterer →
minimalmac:
To keep your coworkers from making negative, and probably inaccurate, judgments about your job performance, spend five to ten minutes each day cleaning and straightening your workspace before heading home.
Some solid advice.
Then again, as the great Richard Feynman said, in paraphrase, what do you care what they think?
“If there’s any group of people who says ‘we don’t know’ a lot, it’s scientists,...”
– Stephen Fry (via milkglassmao)
Yep. THIS (via dayelmar)
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Splitting Firewood by David Tresemer Complete... →
pioneeringindetroit:
Splitting Firewood by David Tresemer Complete Ebook Free
Just in case you are sick in the head like me and are always thinking of new and better ways to manually split firewood. You might be a homesteader if you read books on splitting wood…..
Ha! On page 5 he shares my despise of the face cord. EPIC.
Jeremy Burgess
Anything from the man who wrote The Scythe Book is...
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The Crawford Fund Proceedings 2011 - Supermarket... →
Big PDF file reporting on the Crawford Fund’s 2011 annual conference in Australia.
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PhiPlanet: The Unsettling Story of a Mighty Legume →
phiplanet:
One legume is causing quite a stir for industrialized agriculture and natural gas production. Used in everything from food to fracking, the guar bean is a commodity with a dramatically increasing price tag.
Guar Use
Shampoo. Ice cream. Toothpaste. Guar gum is often an overlooked…
I had no idea, really
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Left and Right, Unite and Fight →
Seriously, people of America (and elsewhere), do yourselves a favour and listen to this podcast from the Planet Money team at NPR. It may be scary, but it is important. If you don’t ask the questions, none of the “answers” will make sense, and all of them, will be wrong.
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“In the US, there is a very interesting power struggle, which is not a hand to...”
– Big scale policies won’t work! — AgriCultures Network
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Maksim Syrnikov Rediscovers Russian Food : The New... →
Russians don’t hold Russian food in particularly high esteem. When they eat out, they favor more exotic cuisines, like Italian or Japanese. The tendency to find foreign food more desirable is a prejudice that goes back centuries—to a time when the Russian aristocracy spoke French, not Russian—and it was exacerbated by the humiliating end of the Cold War and Russia’s subsequent opening to the West....
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“The best example for how this book [Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking]...”
– 3quarksdaily: On eggs and cooking
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How they make pane carasu -- carta da musica -- in... →
Features a great hand-cranked kneading machine and some tremendous bakers.
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An open letter to open up EU seed laws →
It’s a good effort, and most welcome, even if it is probably doomed to failure. The sad part is that the list of signatories is completely dominated by the usual suspects. It’s almost as if the heavy hitters who are so keen on agricultural biodiversity for developing countries (and we all know who they are) see no common cause with what’s happening in their own back garden.
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“Estonia is lobbying for 2016 to be declared “international rye year”...”
– Plans for Rye Road to Leaven Interest in Old-World Grain | Economy | News | ERR
Bring it on!
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“Global leaders and experts need to integrate biofortification and other...”
– World must change the game to end malnutrition,says Expert
I wish I believed that dietary diversity was one of “the most common interventions” to fight micronutrient malnutrition.
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WatchHow to shape round rolls.
In other words — do it more or less like a round loaf.
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“There’s this great story at the end of Richard Henderson’s...”
– Underscore: L.A. Weirdos | Features | Pitchfork
3 common myths about lacrosse players and... →
I didn’t know even one myth about lacrosse players and nutrition … I am SO out of it.
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The Impulsive Farmer: Ten Steps of Bread Baking →
thegreenliferi:
The bread books I use most often are actually split— some use 10 steps, some use 12. You cover everything with 10 steps, I promise. I made the three loaves above using this general format.
Over the past couple days we have talked about types of flour, as well as the
You really should watch Peter Reinhart talk about the stages in baking bread; absolutely inspirational.
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Sicily Scene: ARCHI DI PANE - BREAD ARCHES →
Not sure what to make of this potential food turned into decoration … a sign that the people of Sicily no longer have to worry about where their daily bread will come from?
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Davidovich Bakery Files Federal Complaints to Halt... →
A press release. Of course, if the complaint is dismissed it will be yet another useful word filleted of all useful meaning by being engulfed by industry. Mr Natural says “We’ve been here before.”
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Salad Days - Interactive Feature - T Magazine →
Amazing images in a slideshow that seems unlinkable.
My first strawberry apple pie. Even made the... →
foodandnutritionsecurity:
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Damn fine pie!
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WatchGalileo Time-Lapse Demo
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WatchFlying Pollen, in slow motion - Canon 550D
And just when you think “OK, cute, but this is kinda boring,” it’ll surprise you.
