Archive for October 19, 2007
Squash Sauce
It’s a rainy New York Friday, but that won’t stop us city-dwellers from hitting up the farmers market. The gray sky is a bit of a downer, but it’s nice to see people weathering the weather to get the very best in local produce.
Days like this call for hot meals. Here’s a recipe for one I like a lot, featuring the noble squash. (more…)
Conservation Nation
OK, time for a bit of a rant. Here we go.
I’m at a pharmacy picking up a few necessities (Palmer’s Cocoa Butter, Tom’s Toothpaste, and non-organic (oops) feminine products (double-oops)). I get in line to check out, and while glancing around the store in boredom my eyes fall upon this atrocity:
Disposable hand sanitizer packets.
This item may not mean much to most of us, but to me it represents the heart of the American environmental dilemma. And it fills me with rage. RAGE!
Ew.
Yesterday, in a moment of weakness and hunger I did something kind of reprehensible.
I was at Washington DC’s Union Station, on my way back north after spending the afternoon at the Solar Decathlon (which was AWESOME – more about that later), and I missed my train and had to wait an hour for the next one and I was hungry and frustrated with myself for missing the train and basicly ended up sinking to my ultimate low – the #7 crispy chicken sandwich with a coke and a medium fries.
It was delicious.
But that’s beside the point. I probably could have walked to the other end of the train station and found some more wholesome – and ideally more sustainably-produced – food. But I didn’t, and now I have my conscience to pay for it. I would also like to issue a formal apology to my degestive system, which didn’t deserve this.
