A Good Read:
Deeply Rooted
Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
by Lisa Hamilton
All posts tagged postaweek2012
Weekend Reading – Deeply Rooted and More
Posted by Tammy on August 31, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/08/31/weekend-reading-deeply-rooted-and-more/
Monsoon Madness
Photo editing by Calvin Hamilton
Like an astral collision, it yanks me from the deepest of dreams. Heart pounding, I wait. Then it comes again, a percussion onslaught. Electric webs force fed from the sky to ground and then, softly but growing steadily, like the paw steps from an army of schnauzers. Rain. I smile and return to sleep.
Posted by Tammy on August 26, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/08/26/grilled-red-onions-with-walnut-salsa/
Kasundi Sunday
You already know that my family is eggplant challenged. While I adore the firm meaty vegetable that takes on other flavors, I’m alone in my own home. I’ve managed to create a few acceptable dishes over the years but realistically, my family wants it off the menu.
At the Center of the Recipe
Posted by Tammy on August 19, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/08/19/eggplant-kasundi-brinjal-kasundi/
Once a Century
Event: A Tribute Dinner celebrating Julia Child’s 100th Birthday
Start Date: August 15, 2012 7:00 PM
End Date: August 15, 2012 10:00 PM
Note from the producer of A Tribute Dinner celebrating Julia Child’s 100th Birthday:
Thank you for supporting Les Dames d’Escoffier Phoenix and our fundraising effort. We look forward to celebrating Julia Child’s 100th Birthday with you on August 15, 2012 at Quiessence.
Thank you Pamela!
Posted by Tammy on August 16, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/08/16/julia-childs-100th-birthday/
Tammy’s Top Ten (t3 report) Apps for Food Lovers
This quirky pastime of taking photos of our food will haunt us in history books. Have you noticed? There are some beautiful dishes out there and my propensity to photograph is no exception. I’m also a recent convert to a smart phone. That said, my husband is old hat at it and has shared the delights of numerous helpful apps from the one that allows me to see what I might look like if I gained 200 lbs to the one that helps me to remember where I’ve parked in the multi-story lot. I was recently inspired by a blogger known as omnomnivores to look more deeply into food apps. While I’ve certainly not covered the gamut and the gamut is large, here are the results of my research.
Food Photos Gone Mad!
Posted by Tammy on August 4, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/08/04/tammys-top-ten-t3-report-apps-for-food-lovers/
Honoring Okra and the Summer Games
Who knew? I was on my way to the office listening to an update about last night’s games when this story from National Public Radio struck me from across the airwaves. Apparently, from the dawn of the Olympic games until 1948, poetry was included as part of the competition.
Olympic Stamp 1960 Greece
Posted by Tammy on August 4, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/08/04/honoring-okra-and-the-summer-games/
“I like pie”
Urban dictionary says that this is a phrase used to politely decline to engage in discussion, with the implication that the original speaker is deliberately trying to upset or post flamebait. Perhaps I will have to do a future post on flamebait but as this political season heats up with all of its rhetoric and smear ads, I prefer the idea of eating more pie.
Summer Tomato Pie
Posted by Tammy on July 29, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/07/29/i-like-pie/
The Ocean Knows
I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its jewel boxes is endless as the sand,
impossible to count, pure, and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the petal hard and shiny,
made the jellyfish full of light and untied its knot,
letting its musical threads fall from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl.
— Pablo Neruda from Enigmas
Posted by Tammy on July 25, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/07/25/photos-from-monterey-bay-aquarium/
Local Food Focus: Mesquite
I have a favorite pair of shoes, a favorite pillow, a favorite coffee mug and a favorite ethnobotanist. And he says that mesquite was the most wildly consumed food amongst native desert people prior to WWII. Since then however, consumerism and commercialization have radically altered diets creating some of the most diabetic populations in the world.
Posted by Tammy on July 21, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/07/21/local-food-focus-mesquite/
Pay Back
I swear. The hardest thing I’ve ever done is try to be a good parent. There’s no book and I probably wouldn’t have read it if there was. I began with great ideals and have flexed into a more adaptive role realizing that kids and situations vary and that some of my ideals would have likely put them on a therapist’s couch for years to come. I pray a lot.
Sixteen Year-old Decision
Posted by Tammy on July 17, 2012
https://agrigirl.com/2012/07/17/raising-boy/
Tammy
A wife, a mom, an executive, a certified leadership coach and a breast cancer survivor. I love learning and I love to write and I'm often fascinated with the life lessons that come from my kitchen. Focusing on community-based Placemaking is the way that I work towards creating a healthier planet.
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