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Serena vs. Nori

December 29, 2009

In the further adventures of Serena and food: we went to a friend’s house this evening where they were making sushi. We offered her some and she complained that it was stinky in her nose and turned her face away. She pretended to be shy, and demanded to be taken into another room and read [...]

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Elephant!

December 7, 2009

Serena is becoming quite the artist. She bit this pancake into the shape of an elephant and then had it walk around the table.
Who says you can’t play with your food?

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You ate the bride’s bouquet?!

November 11, 2009

Last month, while the world celebrated World Food Day, I attended a good friend’s wedding, and, with help from the rest of the wedding party, raucously ate the bride’s bouquet.
Eating her bouquet? My friend, concerned about the environmental impact of the cut flower industry, carried a beautiful bunch of flowering kale down the aisle. She [...]

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Security theater at the airport

October 30, 2009

I’m in Georgia for the weekend at a retreat. Everyone is cooking a meal: I volunteered to make lentil soup. Because I was unsure of the grocery shopping situation on this end, I brought the ingredients with me. Which led to this conversation with a TSA agent:
Me: I have a can of tomatoes in my [...]

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Honey?

October 24, 2009

‘I think I feel a bit like going for a walk,’ Rio said because she totally talks like that. She is five going on Jane Austen.
‘Great!’ says I much less suavely, because I totally talk like I have not had a solid night of sleep in six years. It’s amazing the kids ever learned to [...]

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Making carbon footprint part of a product’s packaging

October 23, 2009

Imagine having to face the climate impact of your greasy take-out as you place your order? Or seeing the carbon footprint of your cookies clearly labelled alongside the calorie count on the back of the package in the grocery aisle?
The NYT this week reports on an experiment in Sweden doing exactly that. The Swedes have [...]

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Rio’s Fried Apples For Friends

October 21, 2009

Rio came home today from picking up our farm share with an apple in her hand.
“Mom!” she shouted. “I have an apple. My own apple from the farm. I am going to cut it up into small pieces and fry it and put cinnamon on it and we are going to eat it on toast! [...]

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Happy Equinox, closing out the Gratitude Project

September 20, 2009

Today’s the Equinox, and the last official day of the Gratitude Project. As always after six weeks of honoring my blessings, I’m infused with gratitude for all the small wonders in my daily life. I don’t want to stop paying attention to them, or writing about them. But I’ll drop the daily practice of it, [...]

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Elimination update

September 11, 2009

I’m nearing the end of the first phase of the elimination diet: the one where I eat only “hypoallergenic” foods. Next comes the “challenge phase”, where I try eating the things I cut out one at a time and see if any of them make me sick.
This first phase has been plenty challenging on its [...]

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Rio’s watermelon farm

September 9, 2009

When the peas died in midsummer, I simply tore them up and wondered what to do next with that plot of land. Rio solved the problem for me by moving in and setting up a farm. She (and her sister and her friends) have been “farming” the empty bed for a few weeks now.
“Farming” seems [...]

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