July 2011
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Bottling Wine with Sam Pillsbury and Eric Glomski
When I went up to the Verde Valley to bottle wine with winemakers Eric Glomski, Tim White and Sam Pillsubry, I kept hearing that “wine making isn’t as romantic as everyone thinks.”
Maybe the guys were afraid that I would find the monotonous assembly of bottling, corking, sealing, labeling and packaging dreadfully boring. But I just could’t get past the romance of the story these grapes tell....
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Zero-Packaging Grocery Store to Open in Austin, TX
Austin, Texas is already home to Whole Foods, but that won’t stop a group of entrepreneurs from founding a new grocery store right in the natural food behemoth’s backyard. While the new store In.gredients will also specialize in local and organic ingredients, there’s one major difference between this venture and its hometown competion: In.gredients promises to be the...
Sustainable Food Quiz - National Geographic's... →
9/10 isn’t bad.
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Some say bubble tea others say boba tea.
Let’s make some Black Milk Boba Tea! Here’s a simple and delicious concoction, ideal for home usage and beginning milk tea brewers.
Ingredients: (Makes about 2 servings)
2 cups brewed Black Tea
½ cup Tapioca Pearls
1 cup half and half or non-dairy creamer
Sugar syrup (see directions below)
2 cups ice
Directions: Step 1: Sugar Syrup and Tea
To make your simple sugar syrup,...
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PCRM Makes a Good Point...
Reblogged from vegansaurus:
New nutrition guidelines:
Breakdown of government food subsidies:
As PCRM points out, maybe they should match up a little more?
The USDA even spells out their essential point:
“Key Consumer Message: Make half your plate fruits and vegetables.”
Hmmm, but when I look at the subsidies pie chart, something is amiss!
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“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk, that will teach you to keep...”
– Ernest Hemmingway
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