MARCYINCNY1's CalorieKing Blog
Finally
Friday, April 4th 2008
In a world increasingly gone mad there's a bit of life-affirming joy to be found in placing an heirloom tomato seed in some dirt.
...even though two of the Burpee envelopes were labeled "origin Thailand" and "origin China".
On the other hand I also have some Italian seeds this year with everything written on the envelopes in Italian.
tomato Brandywine, Black Krim, Persimmon, Marvel Stripe, Green Zebra, Costoluto Fiorentino, San Marzano, Golden Ma...
In Defense of Food
Thursday, April 3rd 2008
"Much of what lines supermarket aisles is not food. It's merely foodlike, and it's making us sick.""Avoid [eating] anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize."
-two recent comments from Michael Pollan
( "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" )
I am so very, very lucky to have been born and raised a food snob. I'm just beginning to realize that this is a fundamental reason I've been able to lose so much weight this past year.
Unfortunat...
"Bad Voodoo's War"
Wednesday, April 2nd 2008
We watched FRONTLINE last night. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/
The entire program was disturbing but the part that we found absolutely chilling was Sgt. Nunn advising his men to put loosened tourniquets on their legs in case they hit an IED. Then when one of their humvees does hit an IED they stand around all day in the scorching sun waiting for Kellogg Brown & Root before another platoon finally comes along and helps them.
And this all takes place duri...
The Office
Monday, March 24th 2008
The lease is signed but it will be a couple of months before the space is ready. There it is, in the old Bentley-Settle Building, right above our favorite micro brew pub, The Empire Brewing Co.
Fancy
Saturday, March 22nd 2008
Fancy & Groucho have been doing aerial displays for a couple of weeks and Fancy has been observed checking the nest box but it's still early so I was surprised to see her spending so much time in the box on this chilly morning.
