Posted on August 31, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
Anyone who has ever burnt a roast or broken mayonnaise without knowing why they screwed eventually realizes that the cause of their problem does not lie with them, but instead is due to external factors that are beyond the understanding of rational minds. The truth is the atmosphere of the earth is inhabited by [...]
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Posted on August 31, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
Anyone who has ever burnt a roast or broken mayonnaise without knowing why they screwed eventually realizes that the cause of their problem does not lie with them, but instead is due to external factors that are beyond the understanding of rational minds. The truth is the atmosphere of the earth is inhabited by [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
The days pass slowly and leisurely in one sense and rush past in a blur in others. We wake each morning, some taking a skiff across the river to a network of paths and “roads” for an early morning run, others sleep in, others sip tea and read.
We gather for meals – breakfast, lunch and [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
The days pass slowly and leisurely in one sense and rush past in a blur in others. We wake each morning, some taking a skiff across the river to a network of paths and “roads” for an early morning run, others sleep in, others sip tea and read.
We gather for meals – breakfast, lunch and [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
Yesterday I told you about the oven that I am helping to build at Hendricks Farms and Dairy, and I put up a slide show that partially detailed the process of laying up the block for the base. In today’s slide show you will see that we filled in the base with a combination [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
Yesterday I told you about the oven that I am helping to build at Hendricks Farms and Dairy, and I put up a slide show that partially detailed the process of laying up the block for the base. In today’s slide show you will see that we filled in the base with a combination [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
As regular readers of this blog probably know I take bread baking seriously [because] baking causes me serious joy. So it may not surprise you to read that when I first began working with Trent Hendricks back in November of 2007, we talked about building a cob oven to bake bread, pizza and whatever. [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
As regular readers of this blog probably know I take bread baking seriously [because] baking causes me serious joy. So it may not surprise you to read that when I first began working with Trent Hendricks back in November of 2007, we talked about building a cob oven to bake bread, pizza and whatever. [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
The family which owns the island and operates the plantation also has 5 bungalows for guests. As our group will occupy all of the bungalows we are taken into the main house and greeted as family. There is a grandmother – Anniamam; mother – Annu; and two children – Phillip, 10 year old boy; and [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2008 by bobdelgrosso
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The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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