Can Urban Farming Help Alleviate A Looming Food Crisis?

Americans need to go back to the land.
I don’t mean this in a 1960’s, leaving the city for a commune in the country, complete with goat milk, wheat grass and sprouted lentil loaves, kind of way.
I think we all need to get back to the land wherever we are.
We need to touch […]

Upgrades, Snafus and Other Blog Stuff

We are working on upgrading Wordpress for Tigers & Strawberries. That is the good news.
The bad news is that SpamKarma2, the spam filter that keeps the porn, ads and other bullshit spam comments off my blog has decided to somehow blacklist ME, so I have not been able to comment on my own blog in […]

A New and Interesting Food Blog: World Foodie Guide

I just became aware of a new (only three or four months old) food blog from London which I think is a fun and interesting read.
World Foodie Guide, written by Helen Yuet Ling Pang, a British Chinese woman who is the child of a restaurant owner, is in part a guide to the restaurants […]

Culinary New Year’s Resolutions v.3.0

For the past two years, early in January, I wrote posts describing my culinary resolutions for the coming year, and since they were so much fun the first two times, here I am again. As before, these resolutions deal not just with the kitchen, but also with this blog, my writing, and life in general.
The […]

The Year In Review: Posts Which Make Me Proud

I decided, in the last few days of this year, to look back over what I had written and pick out a post or two per month which had a lot of meaning for me.
Well, I tried to keep it to one or two posts per month, but, well–it just didn’t work out that way. […]