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A FLORAL FEAST: Enjoying Edible Flowers (w/ 3 recipes), By Rebecca L. Brown

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , on July 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »

My lover brings me pretty blooms To brighten up my dreary rooms, But when my darling love is gone I’ll eat the petals one by one. —R. L. Brown, 2010 Whilst eating petals from florist-bought flowers might not be a great idea, a surprising number of beautiful flowers are indeed edible and make fantastic additions [...]

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LAVENDER IN THE KITCHEN (w/ Lavender Sugar recipe!!!), by Rebecca L. Brown

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It seems a shame that, of all the ‘well-known’ herbs, lavender is probably the most neglected in terms of the kitchen. This year, instead of making sachets to scent your drawers, why not explore the culinary side of lavender?

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YOGURT!: How to make it and yogurt cheese

Posted in Making Things, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , on June 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Making yogurt in our home kitchens is an easy feat, part of reclaiming the mysticism of food production. Indeed, it’s so easy, we must ask ourselves: why did we ever stop? Yogurt is of the oldest known ferments, and certainly one of the yummiest. Yogurt contains active live cultures of bacteria, collectively known as “lactobacilli,” [...]

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SHELLING PEAS: Thoughts on a Living Tradition (PLUS Recipe! “Fresh Pea and Coconut Milk Soup”)

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , on May 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »

There are more than a few household tasks that we have forgotten we still have the ability to perform. When we do experiment with these activities, we awaken our hearts and hands to the idea that in fact, this is what we were made to do. Some of them are a bit complicated (making soap) [...]

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EVENT REMINDER FOR THIS SATURDAY: “Kombucha and Kimchi Talk and Giveaway” in Brooklyn, NY

Posted in New Old Traditions, News, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Join Onalistus Reveler, Daisy Jane Danger, Ernistine Cabins, and Briar Reveler for this New Old Event where we will learn how to make kombucha and kimchi, discuss the history of these two mysterious edibles, and learn about some of the benefits of putting them in your belly. Below are the details: “Kombucha and Kimchi Talk [...]

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KOMBUCHA & KIMCHI TALK & GIVEAWAY: An informal afternoon with Revelers who ferment things

Posted in New Old Traditions, News, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Join Onalistus Reveler, Daisy Jane Danger, Ernistine Cabins, and Briar Reveler for this New Old Event where we will learn how to make kombucha and kimchi, discuss the history of these two mysterious edibles, and learn about some of the benefits of putting them in your belly. Below are the details: “Kombucha and Kimchi Talk [...]

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SPRING CLEANING: Baking soda, vinegar, fruit peels, and a secret use for that Coca-Cola someone left in your fridge, by Commeatus

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , on April 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Looking outside, I can see the fullness of spring. Cherry blossoms litter the streets, flowers jut from the cracks in the sidewalk, dogs playing, children laughing. Generally, everything’s been made a mess of. Spring-cleaning time! With sun outside and the world renewing itself, the time of year has come for us to do the same. [...]

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OH MY GODDESS, FIDDLEHEADS! (plus fiddlehead recipe)

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , on April 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Is is possible that winter eating is finally drawing to a close? Could it be that we are just about to really begin the glorious spring, with all it’s magical, sweet, green treasures? According to K Smith Reveler, fiddleheads have been spotted around town. For those of you who don’t live in the north east, [...]

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EVERYONE LOVES RAW MILK

Posted in New Old Traditions, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »

New York Magazine decided to fill in some space with a little article on raw milk this week. We Revelers have been excited about raw milk for a while now, and generally regard it as a holy food. For that reason, it’s nice to see a mainstream mag like New York giving this “illegal-in-most-states” but [...]

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SPEAKING OF WILD EDIBLES: Take a Foraging Tour Near You!

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Last weekend, Commeatus hipped us to a few of the awesome healing plants starting to spring up in our yards and sidewalk cracks. Then, Myra Eddy celebrated pulling one meal a week from her yard. It’s such a good idea, but some of us are a bit shaky when it comes to identifying which green [...]

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RADICAL ASS-KICKING HOME ECONOMICS (part 2): Fermentation & How to Wines and Vinegars

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , on April 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Wine can be made from just about anything. It’s very easy to do, although I’ve never found a book that explains it in the simple terms it could be. Wine is water plus sugar plus yeast plus time. Fruit or flowers add flavor, and often up the sugar content (flowers a little, fruit a lot). [...]

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RADICAL ASS-KICKING HOME ECONOMICS (part 1): The salad

Posted in The Kitchen, Wellness, tagged , , , , , on April 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »

I enjoy challenging myself. I threaten to kick my own ass, and however it plays out, I learn about myself and usually expand my personal comfort levels. This week I challenged myself to eat from my yard for one meal each day I am home.

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THREE SPRING EDIBLES IN YOUR YARD (and what to do with them), by Commeatus

Posted in The Kitchen, Wellness, tagged , , , , , , on April 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Spring has sprung, which means it’s time to stop hiding from the environment and start consuming it. Even now, months before the berries arrive, there are plenty of tasty morsels to be had in forests and by streams.

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RADICAL HOMEMAKERS: We’ll be there, will you?

Posted in New Old Traditions, News, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , , on March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Do you ever come across something that speaks so strongly to your passions that you can hardly contain your excitement? Well, that’s exactly how We Revelers felt when we got an email regarding the upcoming talk and book signing by Shannon Hayes, author of “Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture.” When we saw [...]

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A CELEBRATION EVERY DAY: Sap Moon

Posted in Making Things, New Old Traditions, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 24, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Food-wise, we are still in winter. In fact, we’re kind of in the worst part of it. The winter vegetables are tired and old, and we’re sick of them. But, other areas of our natural world are kind of a buzz. It’s spring, and we know it, and even if earth has yet to start [...]

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PSYCHADELIC BREAD FIT FOR A FED: The tale of the cursed loaves

Posted in News, The Kitchen, tagged , , , on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Have you ever had the feeling, while eating bread, that your mind was melting into an imploded technicolor whirlpool of non-dual cranial inversions made up entirely of perception-bending psychadelia? No? Then perhaps you’ve never tasted the “cursed” bread of Pont-Saint-Esprit.

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SEEDS IN FRUIT & THE LIMITS OF MY CRITIQUE: How the GMO of it all can still get me

Posted in Features, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »

As I sit here, having just finished my winter grapefruit, savoring the tingly succulence of my newly awakened tongue, I think of all the times I’ve eaten fruit when my experience was hindered by the presence of overzealous seeds. Call them “pits,” call them “pips,” either way you label them, these little necessities of life [...]

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A CELEBRATION EVERY DAY: Wolf Moon & Sauerkraut

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2010 | 8 Comments »

It’s a few days into the new moon cycle, which for me has been one with some outer beauty and inner turmoil. Seems somehow appropriate for the title that Jessica Prentice gave to the moon that starts off our new year: the Wolf Moon. The Wolf Moon is about the balance of longing and belonging. [...]

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SUNSHINE IN WINTER: Citrus is seasonal for the shortest days of the year

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , on January 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Guess what? Citrus fruit has a season. It’s now. Many of you probably knew that already, but I’ve been a little slow to the party. See, as my knowledge of things “seasonal” has grown, I’ve been pretty limited to learning the season for produce found here in my current resident state of New York. If [...]

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HAM IN A PILLOWCASE

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , on January 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Moonmeadow Farm has a post about some pig meat they unveiled for the new year that had been first cured in their bedroom, and then stored in a pillowcase under their kitchen table. New Old Tradition to the max. The unveiling is here. The butchering of the hog is here.

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