Monkey Monday: Zuiderzeeroute edition 25 June 2007 12:43 am
Posted by Tracy in : local food, travel, seasonality, milk, cheese, sundance , 2 commentsHello readers! Automatic posting turned out so well last week that I’m giving it another shot with today’s post, which I am actually writing late on Saturday night/early Sunday morning in Volendam, the Netherlands, on the second night of an epic bike trip around the IJsselmeer, a body of water formerly known as the Zuiderzee, for which the bike route around it is named. Biking burns a lot of calories, and Peter and I have been eating all kinds of crazy delicious food, and lots of it, to keep fueled on this adventure, and I have been taking notes whenever possible. However, it is very late, and I must sleep, so just a few quick monkey-style thoughts for you to ponder: (more…)
One last big Michael Pollan quotation 22 June 2007 6:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : work, garden, environment, agriculture, Michael Pollan, books , add a commentTracy is on vacation. You can read all about it at Van Boothe Tandem Adventures. Regularly-scheduled non-vacation TracyFood posts will be back on Monday, July 9. Meanwhile….
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From “The Harvest”
I ended yesterday’s post by quoting a stirring bit of rhetoric about getting down to the work of the land, and that is exactly what Pollan describes at the beginning of chapter 8 of Second Nature, the beginning of the Fall section: the overwhelming, bittersweet work of gathering late summer and fall garden abundance. (more…)
On “The Idea of a Garden” by Michael Pollan 21 June 2007 6:54 pm
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From “Planting a Tree” 20 June 2007 7:00 pm
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Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (more…)
Book review: “Second Nature” by Michael Pollan 19 June 2007 6:13 pm
Posted by Tracy in : reviews, politics, garden, seasonality, school, Michael Pollan, identity, books , add a commentTracy is on vacation. You can read all about it at Van Boothe Tandem Adventures. Regularly-scheduled non-vacation TracyFood posts will be back on Monday, July 9. Meanwhile….
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From Second Nature by Michael Pollan:
Of course, a real green thumb would have done everything I did without having to think about it so much. But you have to start somewhere…. Only much later does it become second nature. Now, I get it — indeed, can no longer imagine not getting it — and from here on I’ll probably grow fine carrots without a moment’s reflection, no bigger a deal than riding a bike. So maybe that is what a green thumb is, a particular form of memory: a compendium of little stories that have been distilled to the point where the gardener can draw on their lessons without even thinking about it — the morals of these stories (most of which are about his own experiences, but some of which may be secondhand) are always at his fingertips.
