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Tag Archives: Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Meets Tea Party.

03-Feb-11

Ratchaburi A nice task for the Republican Congress looking to cut waste.  Mark Bittman says overhaul our agricultural subsidy system: End government subsidies to processed food. We grow more corn for livestock and cars than for humans, and it’s subsidized by more than $3 billion annually; most of it is processed beyond recognition. The story is […]

In fermento sodalitas.

16-Nov-10

http://gowstakeout.com/2012/06/13/roast-pork-with-shrimp-paste/img_8926/ You know you’re living in the Catskills when in your no-plumbing residence you have not one, but two home-fermented drinks given to you by neighbors.  On the left, a beer flavored with locally scavenged mugwort, and on the right, a hard cider from locally scavenged apples – the American colonial drink par excellence.  Emerson calls […]

Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry.

03-Mar-10

Several years ago, when I took it in mind to write a book, I reasoned with myself thus: “Young writers go astray by trying to write ‘the Great American Novel.’  Don’t try.  Write the best book you can about the county where you live.”  That county happened to be Richmond County, or Staten Island, and […]