Food! Glorious Food!

Mark Bittman to Join the Meal Kit Firm Purple Carrot
By STEPHANIE STROM

The Archive of Eating
One 84-year-old librarian has spent more than half her life building
a comprehensive database of cookbooks throughout history.
By BEE WILSON

Though Labeled ‘Wild,’ That Serving of Salmon May Be Farmed or ‘Faux’
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

A Mennonite’s Knack for Fine Goat Cheese
By KIM SEVERSON
Recipe: Roasted Grape and Butternut Squash Bruschetta

Beyond the Honeycrisp Apple
By DAVID KARP

Swiss Chard Cedes the Spotlight
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Recipe: Apple and Swiss Chard Pie

A Big, Poufy Pancake Goes Savory
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipe: Savory Dutch Baby

Parsnips Take Center Stage

By DAVID TANIS
Recipe: Parsnip Gratin With Turmeric and Cumin

The New Caribbean Food Movement
By RACHEL WHARTON
Recipes: Red Stripe-Steamed Mussels | Shrimp Mofongo | Stew Chicken | Coco Bread

Memories of Meals Past

Going Vegetarian in Israel
By ETGAR KERET

Nancy Fuller, ‘Farmhouse Rules’ Chef, at Home
By JOANNE KAUFMAN

Little lights, little lights, who made thee?

Originally published at Larry's Blatherings. You can comment here or there.

I bought a set of small LED lights from Amazon, the tiny kind on clear-coated copper wire. They come in a small round container rolled around a large toilet paper roll, which holds the transformer and cord. I took them out of the box once or twice, looked at them, and then set them in one of the geological epochs on my desk. Come Halloween, I rescued them and went downstairs with some vague thought about wrapping them around the stair spindles, whereupon somebody was quite dismissive, until thoughts of a season which shall not be named until after Thanksgiving occurred. Then somebody took over, unrolled the lights and headed up to the top of the stair with the end of the string of lights. Now the only outlet anywhere along the main stairway is at the bottom, so I didn’t think starting at the top with the other end of the lights was really a great idea.

After a rather overlong discussion of what might work, and we started wrapping the spindles (from the bottom) which ended up with us re-wrapping the wire on an actual toilet paper roll to facilitate passing it through the spindles. After a few spindles were wrapped, it became obvious that there was more spindles than wire to wrap them in, and the process was reversed and a weaving process was started that brought the lights up and down the stair way about four times. A couple of rubber bands have been added to provide stability to the end-points (the spindles are smooth symmetrically turned wood, fatter in the middle than the ends).

I added a timer to the transformer for the coming months of darkness.

Herbs

If anyone would like, I have tarragon, parsley, various thymes, and a half-acre of lemongrass. South Mpls. I keep hearing winter is coming...

My tweets

• Tue, 13:10: RT @citypagesfood: Drinks inspired by @rhymesayers stars? As Brother Ali says, "Gimme more." Now getting mixed at Constantine https://t.co…
• Tue, 15:55: RT @drvox: The 26 happiest, richest, healthiest, and most crime-free countries in the world https://t.co/tPLRUSGzSN Norway at No. 1. US not…
• Wed, 03:09: Le Guin: Where do you get your ideas from? https://t.co/SM3UVNX4UV
• Wed, 06:49: Little lights, little lights, who made thee? https://t.co/im0BMlL35x
• Wed, 06:56: RT @LOLGOP: Imagine if conservatives investigated claims about Iraq's WMDs the way they dug into Ahmed's clock. https://t.co/XMbu5ylYKh
• Wed, 07:00: Food! Glorious Food! https://t.co/KxsUgnAPpn
• Wed, 07:01: RT @dats: Quick reminder on why metadata matters h/t @pinkflawd https://t.co/4PhV4RWQvQ
• Wed, 07:02: RT @Tate: "I'm looking for the unexpected" Happy birthday Robert Mapplethorpe! https://t.co/t1FCeyBCwY https://t.co/EpmTy4eva7
• Wed, 07:09: RT @TravelMagazine: Brits may be able to skip US immigration queues https://t.co/2lUjZHc5Q4 https://t.co/YtWIRr0Rvh
• Wed, 07:47: RT @britishmuseum: Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter #onthisday in 1922 https://t.co/b7V7MIssDR https://t.co…

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