Filed under: art | Tags: art, coat hangers, design, food, installation, tea, teapot, to22, toast, toaster
This beautiful installation was made by a design collaborative known as to22. Their work cosists of ideas. This wire coat hanger installation was designed to make “something from nothing.”
Please also view this beautiful toaster. and this cool but stupid toaster. and this very, very stupid toaster.
Please view my favorite recipes and food related stories on TasteSpotting! The link to my favorites has been added to my “Virtually Frequented Sites” section to the left. It is easy to register and save your favorites. It is also easy to spend hours on this site.
Filed under: college | Tags: best food nation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Corn Refiners Association, Eric Schlosser, fast food nation, food, hfcs, high fructose corn syrup, Michael Pollan, propaganda, The Omnivore's Dilemma
I don’t have a TV, which is why I haven’t heard about the Corn Refiners Association ads until now. I finished reading Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. (I’ve also read A Place of My Own, Second Nature and In Defense of Food. I enjoyed the style and subjects of these books more. When In Defense of Food was released, I read it in two days.)
From Pollan I have learned, very simply, to avoid the center of the grocery store. His initial advice is simple, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Pollan elaborates on these rules (he had three books to fill on the subject) and detailed the importance of shopping for local foods that are good for the body, mind and earth. While high fructose corn syrup might not be any worse for us than sugar, it is in so many foods that it has become impossible to eat corn in moderation because it is in everything that we eat. (more…)
Filed under: last green valley | Tags: alliance ohio, bradley playhouse, Connecticut, ddt, food, fun and fancy free, grocery, mCcaskey register company, photography, Pomfret, pomfret arms, pyequick, red and white, red and white food stores, red cross, scripto, tobacco, treasure of sierra madre
I’ve been looking for information on the Red and White Grocery chain. I haven’t been able to find much information. I’ve gathered that it works a lot like today’s IGA, and several stores were eventually sold to Hannaford. A few stores remain in existence, but I am unsure about their current affiliation statuses. I’d love to have more information on this chain!
More photographs and information below the jump, including a very detailed description of the photograph above. (more…)
Filed under: art, college, garden | Tags: agriculture, architecture, dance, farming, food, New York, parenting, philosophy, sukkah
This is my kind of parent. This is my kind of farmer. This is my kind of rule. This is my kind of intervention.
The architecture intro class is asked to design a Sukkah. When I designed mine two years ago, I imagined one beneath a water tower, one built of scrap wood and the last being “constructed” of eight modern dancers holding sunflowers moving to create a space that both comforts their occupants and responds to their surroundings. If only I were Jewish.
I really enjoyed reading this chapter for philosophy. You may enjoy reading it as well.
I wouldn’t say I like what he designed for a farm in Killingly, Connecticut, but I like his ideas.
