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Much of this is destined to become Leek Bread Pudding.
Leeks, fiddleheads, lemons, asparagus, cheese, tomatillos, mustard greens, brioche, butter, cream, milk, linewaiter’s gazette.
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This is fun: at about 1:36 you can see my friend John and I cross the street (from bottom left corner to the bar), lock up my bike, and go inside. And then my bike gets to be front and centre for the rest of the little clip.
Freddy’s Bar - Last Days from tracy collins on Vimeo.
NYT article and slideshow about Freddy’s here.
Inspired by Emily’s farmer’s market haul photos, (inspired, in turn, by Sweet Juniper), this is today’s Park Slope Food Coop haul
1 cucumber
bag of brussels sprouts
cream cheese
blue cheese
peccorino cheese
2 avocados
bag of baby carrots
2 packages of frozen ravioli
1 loaf amy’s bread
4 tomatoes
1 kiwi
4 limes
1 bunch kale
3 packages frozen peas
yogurt
milk
4 bottles of beer
2 leeks
6 eggs
bag of salad greens
bunch of mint
handful of basil
2 lemons
2 lightbulbs
current issue of the coop newspaper
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HRH Edward Prince of Wales, and a terrier on board HMS ‘Hindustan’,originally uploaded by National Maritime Museum.
Reproduction ID: P07390
Maker: Unknown
Date: about 1911
From the National Maritime Museum’s “Animals at Sea” flickr set.There are some of kitties!
The Official Management Company is responsible for all the lovely design at the Ace Hotel (in New York and Portland and a few other places).
These are some of my favourites, but the OMC website is certainly worth a look.
This is a good post from my friend Laurie about bike lanes. She rides in Toronto, but what she’s saying applies everywhere.
And what she’s saying is that drivers should be in favour of bike lanes. Especially the drivers that hate cyclists the most. Cyclists are not going to go away, but they will be less bothersome to drivers if there is a safe place for them to be on the road.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot (I drive in the city, as well as cycle), and the thing that slows cars down (which is what seems to make drivers the most angry) is unpredictability. It’s not cyclists specifically, it’s mostly double-parking! Double parked cars, delivery trucks, taxis…they force cars and cyclists to change lanes and zoom around them, which is what makes driving (and cycling) awful. And dangerous.
Every time I read blog comments on bike-related things I get all upset at the mean-spirited anti-cyclist sentiments. The anti-bikers actually need to support bicycle infrastructure to get what they want! And traffic needs to behave better so that things are safer, but also so driving is predictable and moves faster. Transportation Alternatives has been pushing the Biking Rules, shouldn’t AAA push good driving? It will make the streets better for everyone.
Only slightly related, here are some photos of the April 9th Critical Mass ride in Brooklyn. It was lovely: we went to eat ice cream and check out the new Brooklyn Bridge Park. About 20 cyclists at peak, about 20 cops (in a van, a few cars, and those half-car golf-cart things) following us for some unknown bureaucratic reason.
I’m addressing 12 envelopes to mail CDs off to people in my CD exchange. It feels incredibly magical that you can just write where you want the thing to go, put it in a box, and it goes there!
This feels especially true as I write “Canada” on the envelopes. Go to Canada little package!
Last summer my brilliant friend Sarah and I were musing about a strange turn of phrase: “I’m in a place where I can’t date right now” or “I’m in a place where I can’t go for coffee.” Where is this place? Sometimes the phrase is framed in the negative, “I’m not in place where it makes sense for me to see you,” but if you’re not in one place, you must be in another, right? So still, where are you? Where is this place?
We imagine this place to be an awesome fantasy park, full of dudes throwing baseballs around, hanging out with puppies, maybe there’s a hot dog vendor. There are definitely no girls allowed in this place, but it’s awesome, and the guys are having a good time and the appeal is apparent. Still, being in this place prevents them from being in a place where they can go for coffee or go on dates or make out or whatever.
So when dude says “I’m not in a place where I can date right now” what they’re not saying out loud is “BECAUSE I’M AT THE SECRET BOY AND PUPPY PARK!”
So what the awesome girls do, is they bike down to the place, on their 3-speed Schwinns with good stuff in their baskets. And they lay out a blanket and set out a picnic full of baguettes and brie and mason jars full of gin and tonic. Now this picnic spot is open-access, and the boys can totally see it from dude and puppy park, and maybe they’ll be tempted by the smart girls who planned for the day with all this rad stuff that the dudes didn’t think of. All they have are hot dogs and baseballs and maybe they’ll start to think that if they got out of the place then they too could have fancy cheese and picnic cocktails.
Sometimes Sarah and I think that the Place is the Red Hook Ballfields, but the food is too good there for this to make total sense.
Anyhow, welcome to spring everyone. It’s bikes and picnic season!
Here are some unrelated photos of dudes and puppies.
(photo by buzzchap)
(photo by thebigblackmariah)
(photo by unfocused mike)
1. Buildings Along Orchard Street, 2. Cooper Union John Downer Sign Painting Workshop, 3. Leaf applique cardigan, 4. nick’s luncheonette, 5. In Memory 9-11 and Katrina, 6. midwesterners. they’re a good-looking bunch., 7. food for peace stamp single, 8. Jeff Canham: Studio visit, 9. Jeff Canham: Studio visit, 10. wood & wool stools, 11. Bicycle love, 12. _MG_3499, 13. St. Teresa Thrift Shop, 14. 9 triangles down, 171 to go, 15. Cushion, 16. 59/365
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I just noticed the 3D option in streetview. This is incredible, but I don’t have any blue and red glasses!
Kornfeld, Kornblit, Kornprobst.
All the KOR- names on the books on hold at the Brooklyn Public Library.
The one there for me is Dave Egger’s Zeitoun which I’ve zoomed through in the past few days. It’s wonderful and outrageous (as in “that’s an outrage!”).
On Thursday, I took the S-Q combo of trains to Ditmas Park to hang out with the cluster of wonderful humans that live in a house (which might be against the rules), pick up my car, and settle Catan. I took my new camera (a Canon G11) for the ride–I’m so pleased with how it works in low light!
The shuttle stop by me is called Botanic Garden even though it’s not the closest stop to the Botanic Garden and it’s connected to the 2/3/4/5 Franklin Ave. I don’t know how things got named.
Yellow socks and the yellow lego-like subway stripe. I really like that if you look closely, is says “Amoreille” in dots in the top right.
This little girl was totally vamping for the camera.
Then we drank wine and played The Settlers of Catan. Jamie won.
Okay, I know I’m late to get into Lady Gaga’s amazing clothes and such, but I’ve come around. And this telephone hat from the Telephone video is so awesome.
I went to New Orleans in January, leading a Hillel group through Jewish Funds for Justice to work with Rebuilding Together.
What that means is that me, my rad co-leader Getzel, and 24 CUNY undergrads went to New Orleans and rebuilt some houses. We heard from speakers, took tours, wandered the city, held reflection sessions, and learned to use power saws and what “fireblocking” is.
I’m going back this week. New group of participants, new building project, same city. Same issues.
I’m reading Hell or High Water this week to get ready. It’s unpacking what we mean when we say that Hurricane Katrina was a racial disaster. The chapter I’m on now is about the history of disaster management and why FEMA was so unable to really respond. It will feel good to have more answers, and more things to discuss on this upcoming trip.
I have a new favourite: the Smitten Kitchen’s Broccoli Slaw. It’s a salad of broccoli and cranberries and almonds and red onions, with a dressing made out of buttermilk. As a devoted mayonnaise avoider I love the idea of slaw that is mayo-free. I’ve used the dressing on other things too, most recently quinoa salad (made while Zach was making chicken salad–we used all the same additional ingredients: celery, apples, pecans, cranberries, but diverged in our paths when it came to dressing. He opted for mayo and I balked and grabbed the buttermilk).
But buttermilk comes in one-litre containers and I don’t really need that much. So I’ve been making other things with buttermilk, including Lemon Poppyseed cake (taken from the Smitten Kitchen again, her lemon cake but with poppyseeds added–why would you ever make lemon cake WITHOUT poppyseeds?), and this morning, buttermilk pancakes from the joy of cooking.
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So while we’re talking about food, I want to highlight just how fascinated I am with Fed Up With School Lunch, the blog of an elementary school teacher who is eating the school lunches everyday. It’s very simple, usually a photo and a short reaction, and the constant reassurance that this is not some big political statement from someone’s who’s been doing food and nutrition campaigning for a long time. It’s a simple project–the blog’s description is “Eating school lunch just like the kids every day in 2010″–and the author is very clear that she’s no expert in nutrition. The’s a naive aspect to this that makes the project have a lot of impact.
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Also, on monday I’m taking a cooking class at the Brooklyn Kitchen Labs! It’s the chinese takeout class, taught by Cathy Erway who writes Not Eating Out in New York, and I’m very excited about it.
more bikes, more billboards
I live on a busy street, and when I have the windows open I really hear bits of Empire State Of Mind coming from outside. It’s kind of magical.
I’m back in New York for the semester after a lot of bouncing around (Pearlstone, Vancouver, St Louis, Farrar, New Orleans, and the shortest trip to Toronto ever), and my first day back was a sunny day. I biked into Manhattan and back again, stopping to buy veggies and fish in Chinatown. I love the smell of chinatown(s)! It’s such a familiar constant, despite the city it’s in.
Okay, semester: full speed ahead.
The other day, I suggested that you could talk around Olympic trademark rules: “the year between 2009 and 2011 models now in store!”
And then today I read that Lululemon is doing just that, with their line of clothes called the “Cool sporting event that takes place in British Columbia between 2009 and 2011 edition.”
Of course, this isn’t enough for VANOC! They claim that lululemon has “broken the spirit of Olympic trademark regulations.”
Their commerical rights management dude says:
“We expected better sportsmanship from a local Canadian company than to produce a clothing line that attempts to profit from the Games but doesn’t support the Games or the success of the Canadian Olympic team.”
It just totally makes me crazy to hear them use words like “spirit” and “sportsmanship”–like they’re pretending this is about anything other than money.
If trademark people really believed in the “spirit of trademark regulations” rather than the letter of the law of trademark regulations then we wouldn’t have events like when Starbucks made Puddleduck, a kids clothing store, take away the sign that said “starducks” on the table where they offered free coffee to customers. There are a million other examples.
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