Saturday, December 3, 2011

Winter Greens

Stopped by the Matthews Farmers Market this morning and came home with some beautiful winter greens: two bunches of collards, a bunch of regular spinach, two bunches of Bordeaux spinach (red stems), a giant head of Romaine lettuce and a head of red leaf lettuce. The temp was in the mid-30's this morning (lower overnight), and our local organic growers are still producing this beautiful produce:

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I've been fortunate to have an abundant supply of Swiss chard growing in my own front bed. These chard plants are all from seeds from a plant that went to seed last year. I picked a leaf 21" long the other day (the leaf only, not counting the stem) and 10" wide to make a wrap for lunch.

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Steve Jobs: Postmortem

One of America's best-known plant-based doctors, Dr. John McDougall, did a significant amount of research on Steve Jobs and the cancer that killed him, and offers some reflections on what caused his death—his vegan diet likely kept him alive longer than he might otherwise have lived, and the surgery he regretted not having sooner would not have saved him. Link.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

What Are We Paying You For?

Monday, November 28, 2011

How to Google

Great primer on how to use Google to search for maximum advantage—including using Google to perform math functions and metric/standard conversions. Here.