This sounds like real trouble
“The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world’s wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S.”
A ‘time bomb’ for world wheat crop – Los Angeles Times
The best sauce in the world [...]
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The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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The Dark Side is closer than you think. (Thanks to Trig for bringing this to our attention.)
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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You do not have to tell me that I’ve been remiss in my blogging, because as a lapsed Roman Catholic, I’m as much aware of my shortcomings as I am of my natural proclivity to lapse. Still, if you want to give me a hard time about the shabbiness of my blog, [...]
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This is cool
“Higher heifer milk yields (≥ 200 liters) were found in herds where the stock manager thought it important to know every individual animal, although this was only a trend (p = 0.14). On farms where cows were called by name, milk yield was 258 liters higher than on farms where this was not [...]
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From biltong
So we have added another form of carne seca (lit. dry meat) to our repertoire of air dried meat portfolio: South African Biltong.
My first experience with Biltong was during a trip to London in 2007. On our last night in town and fed up with being phelbotimized by the doubling effect of the dollar [...]
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When in September we began building our still incomplete masonry oven, Trent bought a grain mill. Suffice it to indicate that it has not seen much use since then. However, on Saturday I dragged the thing out to grind some wheat berries to mill in order to make bread starter (aka “poolish” and “biga”).
I [...]
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I’ve been working on a personal version of the message in this video for about a week and will post it when I’ve gotten rid of the many rhetorical bugs. In the meantime, consider it a primer on something from me that in all probability will be much ruder and with more [...]
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I’ve been working on a personal version of the message in this video for about a week and will post it when I’ve gotten rid of the many rhetorical bugs. In the meantime, consider it a primer on something from me that in all probability will be much ruder and with more [...]
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