Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut. While [...]
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20 Dec 2008My friend Naiades went to New Orleans and took some great photos, including this one: I want my balcony to look like this some day. So beautiful. But it does look a lot better than that photo you see at the top of this site. That was taken over a year ago. Now, I have [...]
I tell ya, the FDA is not smelling like a rose lately… FDA: Is the Tomato to Blame for Salmonella Outbreak? Is It Not?… Three weeks after the Food and Drug Administration first warned consumers to avoid certain types of tomatoes for fear they would carry an uncommon type of Salmonella, known as Saintpaul, the [...]
Finally, my first 100-foot diet meal from my little apartment balcony. [Sorry, no pic -- still can't upload from my camera to the computer, dammit.] homegrown, organic salad greens local, organic cilantro organic, homecooked chickpeas local, organic lemon juice organic olive oil toasted, organic sesame seeds Dee-licious. To be honest, I was surprised at how [...]
Food banks face high costs but feeding more people “The way it’s going, we’re going to have a food disaster pretty soon,” said Phyllis Legg, interim executive director of the Merced Food Bank, which serves 43 food pantries throughout foreclosure-ravaged Merced County. Food banks across the country are in similar straits: While demand is up, [...]
I'm not really famous. In case you were wondering. But I tried. I once believed that fame makes you real - a perversion of "The Velveteen Rabbit" theme that love makes you real. Guess I equated fame with love. Sad. You can read more about that here.