November 2010
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October 2010
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Biking Altruism
Caroline shared a charming bike story about our neighborhood last month, which prompted me to tell one of my own from a couple of weeks ago. Having biked in New York since I moved here three years ago and crossed the Manhattan bridge more times than I care to count, I’ve become a reasonably strong rider. To the point where I pass something like 9 out of 10 riders I encounter on my commute...
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After the hatchets, come the scalpels
Since complaining about the meat industry is becoming a common theme of my posts, I would be remiss if I didn’t share an op-ed from the Guardian where George Monbiot comes out in favor of sustainable meat eating, after having argued that veganism is the only just option. Consider:
Feeding meat and bone meal to cows was insane. Feeding it to pigs, whose natural diet incorporates a fair bit of...
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Brooklyn Skillshare 2010
Last year, our inaugural Brooklyn Skillshare drew some 450+ people out to the Gowanus Studio Space for a day of five blocks of three classes each, ranging from Make Your Own Butter to Balloon Animals. The day was awesome but also insane, as we dealt with larger-than-expected crowds who swarmed the classes, making it difficult to everyone to see and hear. The crowd also overwhelmed what we had...
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Recipe: Spicy Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese...
Because it’s autumn, and also because there were a number of special events this week at work (two birthdays, someone coming back from maternity leave, someone else leaving), I decided it was time to break out the pumpkin cupcakes.
The recipe comes from a scanned page of my mother’s cookbook, in which she had a pasted a number of recipes cut out from the newspaper. Though...
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October basil
As garden season nears an end in Brooklyn, Anthony and I are left with the decidedly pleasant task of disposing with our basil.
Our basil did spectacularly well this year. We started them from seeds in May, and in June they looked like this:
Today, each one of those stalks has turned into a bush like this:
Magic, right?
Therefore, it’s pesto time. (You may or may not want to...
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“Given the high costs of waste disposal in New York, it’s senseless that we cart...”
– A certain hottie (who also writes half of this blog), in Time Out New York today in an article about our worm composting class at the Brooklyn Skillshare!
If you’re in the New York area, you really should check out the Skillshare on Saturday. In addition to our worm composting class, there... 