Monthly Archives: August 2008

Farmers market etiquette: How to ask hard questions of the people who grow your food

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 12, 2008
Via Culinate, over at Grist’s new Checkout Line blog, Lou Bendrick answers a question about “how to talk to growers”:http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/21/164453/262?source=food, and commenters debate the value of organic certification, among other things. I think it’s important to talk to growers about their methods, both because it gives them opportunity to talk about something they are proud [...]
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Lynne Rossetto Kasper, The radio journalist

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 11, 2008
Culinate ran a nice little interview with “Lynn Rossetto Kasper”:http://www.culinate.com/articles/the_culinate_interview/lynne_rosetto_kasper, host of public radio’s “The Splendid Table”:http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/. I’d love to see her new book, “The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper”:http://www.amazon.com/Splendid-Tables-How-Supper-Award-Winning/dp/0307346714/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218504734&sr=8-1. You can listen to the show online, via podcast, or on Mississippi Public Radio Sundays at 11am.
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Grilling Green: Fuel for Thought

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 11, 2008
Some more “green grilling tips”:http://www.culinate.com/articles/sift/eco_grilling from Culinate.
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Wildlife Gardening Pays Off

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 11, 2008
Today is my daughter’s first day of preschool. I took the opportunity (in between rain showers) to spend 45 minutes weeding my long-neglected garden. I was thrilled to find four swallowtail butterfly caterpillars on the remnants of my bronze fennel, which I planted specifically as a host plant (I am not a fennel eater). I [...]
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Swimming in Greenpeace’s Seafood Report

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 11, 2008
Via Culinate, a link to “Swimming in Greenpeace’s Seafood Report”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/mighty-appetite/2008/06/swimming_in_greenpeaces_seafoo.html in the ??Washington Post?? food blog ??A Mighty Appetite??, where Kim O’Donnel reviews the Greenpeace report “Carting Away the Oceans: How Grocery Stores Are Emptying the Seas”:http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/oceans/seafood/. The report is aimed at evaluating commercial buying practices and takes a look at U.S. grocery stores. None [...]
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Ask yourself why you garden: Urban farming isn’t for the merely romantic

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 10, 2008
Over at Culinate, Harriet Fasenfest writes: “Ask yourself why you garden. Urban farming isn’t for the merely romantic.”:http://www.culinate.com/mix/dinner_guest/ask_yourself_why_you_garden She reminds us of the hard work and casual ridicule that comes our way.
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Market Inspiration: Mind Your Budget at the Farmers Market

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 10, 2008
Sadly, our market season (in Mobile) is over for the summer, but Culinate provides these good tips to keep in mind when you’re shopping there again in the fall: “Market Inspiration: Mind Your Budget at the Farmers Market”:http://www.culinate.com/articles/features/shopping_on_a_budget_at_farmers_markets
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Blog Roundup

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 10, 2008
I’ve been paging through my backlog of news articles, selecting the best ones and getting ready to share them with you. If you’re an avid news reader you may have seen some of these already, but most of the information I like to post is evergreen (i.e. always relevant and not time-sensitive). So prepare for [...]
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A Landscape for Lizards: Bill Finch on Anoles

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 1, 2008
In today’s ??Press-Register??, “Bill Finch salutes the anole”:http://www.al.com/press-register/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/121758217944870.xml&coll=3, the small, entertaining lizards ubiquitous in our gardens, known to some as chameleons or false chameleons. Like just about any reptile you may see in your garden, you should be happy to have them, since they consume insects. I can remember visiting a great aunt and uncle [...]
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