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Archive for “Food” category
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10 Jul 2006
You may remember the recent Meg Wheatley competition where you were asked to decide from a list of choices what Schumacher College was named after. One of the incorrect answers was a fictional German prog rock band called Schumacher, whose classic album was called ‘Luminous Pancake Terror’. Last weekend as Emma and I wandered around the Tate Gallery in St. Ives, looking at an incomprehensible exhibition by the artist John Hoyland, we found a painting that would without a doubt, have been the cover of that album. If ever there was a cover for an album called ‘Luminous Pancake Terror’, that was it. Goodness knows what else it could be. Any suggestions?
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6 Jul 2006
I’m sure you all saw this when it came out, but not having a TV I only just saw it on the newly released DVD. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Jamie Oliver is a TV chef who undertook to try and change school dinners in the UK. The programme and the campaign that arose from it have had a huge effect on school meals in the UK, and, it could be argued, did more to put one issue on the public agenda than any single campaign run by an environmental group over the last 50 years. So, what can we learn from Jamie’s School Dinners that can help with energy descent planning projects?
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5 Jul 2006
**Bjorn Lomborg** is Environmentalist Baiter Supreme, the one guy with some letters after his name who is wheeled out in the media to represent the scientific face of climate denial. Despite having been accused of scientific dishonesty by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, he is still out there, touting his free market ideas. This Sunday’s Observer newspaper included an article by Lomborg called Climate change can wait. World health Can’t.
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4 Jul 2006
There was a song in the charts when I was a kid called “You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties”, by Jona Lewie. Rather than being found in the kitchen, I tend to be found tending the clay pizza oven. Having built a few of the things, and also having arrived in places where a clay oven has been made but no-one quite knows what to do with it, I tend to end up being the one with the singed eyebrows. Having spent last Saturday making pizza at my kids school fair in their clay oven, I thought I might pass on my thoughts as to what ensures a successful firing and a good long baking session.
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30 Jun 2006
As per the annual family tradition, we started making this year’s elderflower cordial when most of the elderflowers were past their best. It is lovely to reconnect to these gorgeous creamy flowers and the unique smell of sun drenched elderflowers. I have just been picking off the flowers and my fingers are a lovely greeny yellow colour from the pollen. Here is
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You may remember the recent Meg Wheatley competition where you were asked to decide from a list of choices what Schumacher College was named after. One of the incorrect answers was a fictional German prog rock band called Schumacher, whose classic album was called ‘Luminous Pancake Terror’. Last weekend as Emma and I wandered around the Tate Gallery in St. Ives, looking at an incomprehensible exhibition by the artist John Hoyland, we found a painting that would without a doubt, have been the cover of that album. If ever there was a cover for an album called ‘Luminous Pancake Terror’, that was it. Goodness knows what else it could be. Any suggestions?
