tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.comments2009-08-19T05:30:32.668-07:00rooting for fruitjennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06653773689842885676noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-10541141682805926702009-08-18T14:40:58.348-07:002009-08-18T14:40:58.348-07:00I actually have visted the Aveh Umurerwa home and ...I actually have visted the Aveh Umurerwa home and I too found it astounding and instantly fell in love with all of the children. Great to see someone else has gone to help these kids!Oasis Or Miragehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576182714404917421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-72009515897438444142009-04-26T15:32:00.000-07:002009-04-26T15:32:00.000-07:00I have been on a muffin kick lately, and basically...I have been on a muffin kick lately, and basically any sweet bread can become a muffin, so I'm going to make these soon.<br /><br />Coincidentally, we are having sweet potatoes for dinner and I put a few extra ones in the oven to bake, so I have everything we need for the recipe! Even shredded coconut, oddly enough.Emily Maynardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248884940855355056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-54103822092320170652009-04-24T11:03:00.000-07:002009-04-24T11:03:00.000-07:00good choice on forgoing the chocolate mint. luke a...good choice on forgoing the chocolate mint. luke and i grew it a few years ago and it just wasn't chocolatey enough to be special and not minty enough to be mint. <br /><br />lemon basil on the other hand... is a great kombucha flavorer, as i remember from some of our wackier batches. <br /><br />also, it's not even warm enough to PLANT our herbs yet here - although it is >70 degrees today!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04251656521014252045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-10383843933557070662009-04-24T10:48:00.000-07:002009-04-24T10:48:00.000-07:00Your writing is quite beautiful and thoughtful, Je...Your writing is quite beautiful and thoughtful, Jenny.<br /><br />I have been eyeing herbs at the farmers market near Columbia, but every time I go by my hands are just too full to take on one more precious package. The next market is on Sunday...maybe then!<br /><br />Do keep us posted about your Earth Matters column, wherever that may be.<br /><br />Love,<br />Ai Lu<br /><br />P.S. Got my Divalicious Cup yesterday. Too bad I have to wait another month to use it!Ai Luhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01197869780327408592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-68555927294948179382009-03-24T15:47:00.000-07:002009-03-24T15:47:00.000-07:00Have you heard of Human Flower Project? Am sure H...Have you heard of Human Flower Project? Am sure HFP would be interested in your time in Zanzibar. I can smell the combination of vanilla and nutmeg. Also, I once baked a delicious flourless chocolate cake using bananas and sweet potatoes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-5832265760079404222009-03-19T22:30:00.000-07:002009-03-19T22:30:00.000-07:00Georgia, thanks so much for stopping by! I appreci...Georgia, thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate your support.<BR/><BR/>And yes, things from overseas do enrich our lives and I don't anticipate use going without Chanel anytime soon... my point is really not that the locavore movement is boring (at least here in Santa Monica it's not boring!) but that it's over simplified.jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06653773689842885676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-90041526402627029322009-03-14T09:55:00.000-07:002009-03-14T09:55:00.000-07:00If we only purchased from local sources there woul...If we only purchased from local sources there would be no Chanel perfume in our lives; it would be a dull, less sensual world indeed (speaking for myself).<BR/><BR/>The locavore movement is boring, especially if you live in the Northeast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-67256119659431246422009-03-12T12:31:00.000-07:002009-03-12T12:31:00.000-07:00I found your blog via your Civil Eats essay. I en...I found your blog via your Civil Eats essay. I enjoy your writing style and reading your observations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-52509674349236161432008-12-15T13:50:00.000-08:002008-12-15T13:50:00.000-08:00have you heard the bruno latour joke about the ped...have you heard the bruno latour joke about the pedofil?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-85769221604335063932008-12-07T18:19:00.000-08:002008-12-07T18:19:00.000-08:00I thought of you again this morning when I went to...I thought of you again this morning when I went to the little greenmarket by Columbia and bought some of my new favorite apples, golden russets, from the Tibetan garden stand. A lot of their apples are gnarly and pitted from hail damage earlier in the season, but I buy the golden russets by the dozen regardless, because even in their ugliness, they are so delicious!Ai Luhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01197869780327408592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-52006917625713029692008-11-27T05:59:00.000-08:002008-11-27T05:59:00.000-08:00Oh my -- I cannot express my envy at your buying C...Oh my -- I cannot express my envy at your buying CA-grown persimmons! I bought a couple of Hachiya at the co-op here in Minnesota the other day, and surprisingly they were ripe enough to eat on the spot: oh so good.Ai Luhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01197869780327408592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-40607570618145796612008-11-27T05:55:00.000-08:002008-11-27T05:55:00.000-08:00Can I be invited to your Qishr ceremony? I will ha...Can I be invited to your Qishr ceremony? I will happily join the ranks of the Mad to get a taste.<BR/>Fine writing on your blog, JG. I am going to read the rest of your posts and get caught up with your creative food musings!<BR/>Ai LuAi Luhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01197869780327408592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-62216750302095949372008-11-23T17:23:00.000-08:002008-11-23T17:23:00.000-08:00A framed photo of the Hachiyas would make a nice C...A framed photo of the Hachiyas would make a nice Christmas presentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-64481951927037697322008-11-22T13:59:00.000-08:002008-11-22T13:59:00.000-08:00Thanks for your comment, skrev. Your Berry excerpt...Thanks for your comment, skrev. Your Berry excerpt (from what book?) recalls a complex discussion I had yesterday with a friend writing a dissertation on John Kellogg, and how human health was conceived of in the same terms as environmental health. Which is to say, it was all becoming industrialized when Kellogg was experimenting and creating corn flakes. Berry, and Pollan, always get us out of the proverbial disconnected rut.jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06653773689842885676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-9202029991381360922008-11-22T08:23:00.000-08:002008-11-22T08:23:00.000-08:00How ironic that the least understood (shall we say...How ironic that the least understood (shall we say mysterious?) and perhaps most fundamental aspect of food production may also be regarded as the least sexy. You've posed quite a question with this post. I think Berry and Pollan's call to connectedness may help. The post made me think of this quote from Berry:<BR/><BR><BR/><I>all bodies, plant, and animal, and human...are indissolubly linked in complex patterns of energy exchange. They die into each other's life, live into each other's death. They do not consume in the sense of using up. They do not produce waste. What they take in they change, but they change it always into a form necessary for its use by a living body of another kind. And this exchange goes on and on, round and round, the Wheel of Life rising out of the soil, descending into it, through the bodies of creatures.<BR/><BR><BR/>The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.</I>Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06033860705507026675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-26021993278526062662008-11-15T07:33:00.000-08:002008-11-15T07:33:00.000-08:00Wendy Johnson's book + GGZM sounds completely intr...Wendy Johnson's book + GGZM sounds completely intriguing to me. have always been entranced by various monastaries.....i love the enclosure but love the outside. tho i have read that many monastics say that within the walls of enclosure is freedom ~<BR/><BR/>lovely writing + insight ;-)taste memoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788472489091750224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-33097933635682266392008-11-13T04:49:00.000-08:002008-11-13T04:49:00.000-08:00I miss that cute purple plant :(I miss that cute purple plant :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-84352519188115458392008-11-04T14:22:00.000-08:002008-11-04T14:22:00.000-08:00Stimulating article, dear. As always, so proud of...Stimulating article, dear. As always, so proud of you.<BR/><BR/>For the record though: I make no claim to being a perfect mom but never once did I suggest that you finish all the food on your plate ...<BR/><BR/>:)<BR/>Love you<BR/>p.s. YOU might be pleased to know that I actually baked some apple pies last weekend !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-91149408483290390882008-11-03T21:46:00.000-08:002008-11-03T21:46:00.000-08:00Again, Jenny, well put. Thinking back on Pollan qu...Again, Jenny, well put. Thinking back on Pollan quoting Wendell Berry in his Introduction to Omnivore's Dilemna: Eating is an agricultural act, but it's also a political act. We tend to lose sight of that, I think, getting wrapped up as we do in the presidential election (is it really almost over?), and it's well worth stopping to think a moment. See you soon.Timurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11738171600497533027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-51865411496234499802008-10-30T10:38:00.000-07:002008-10-30T10:38:00.000-07:00just came across your blog. love your words about...just came across your blog. love your words about roots, fruits + overall just capturing the essence of the earth sky + water! look forward to reading more ;-)....taste memoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788472489091750224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-9088984879306224542008-10-27T03:30:00.000-07:002008-10-27T03:30:00.000-07:00Vanilla bean plum? Yes please. I came across you...Vanilla bean plum? Yes please. <BR/><BR/>I came across your blog via Avidalegria. The posts about Rwandan coffee are fascinating!Lisa and Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17857704375623585452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-70318236864550655602008-10-26T17:40:00.000-07:002008-10-26T17:40:00.000-07:00yes, let's not forget about pickling...yes, let's not forget about pickling...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-43319219892669467172008-10-24T05:51:00.000-07:002008-10-24T05:51:00.000-07:00Jenny, you better save some jars.We can't forget a...Jenny, you better save some jars.<BR/>We can't forget about pickling, now! AlexAlex Weiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02643852302869158517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-16620703277356190632008-10-24T04:12:00.000-07:002008-10-24T04:12:00.000-07:00sounds like we may be receiving some yummy treats ...sounds like we may be receiving some yummy treats for Christmas !<BR/><BR/>xomjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11593919383978779403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241780497198722215.post-46194079252700938452008-10-22T19:29:00.000-07:002008-10-22T19:29:00.000-07:00I am so glad that you are back!I love the new desi...I am so glad that you are back!<BR/>I love the new design, too.<BR/>Ai LuAi Luhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01197869780327408592noreply@blogger.com