Between this place — those lettuce greens were hands-down the best — and the new farmer’s market on Grandin Road, I think I’m convinced, finally, to go see the movie “Food, INC” — although I’ll admit I was finding it so much easier to remain uninformed.
All posts for the month July, 2009
Greens Garage: The opposite of “Food, Inc.”
Posted by bethmacy on July 26, 2009
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2009/07/26/honor-system/
Kamikaze cooking
I’m trying to create something edible from the food that’s been lingering near the back of my shelves and in my freezer . . . without, in theory, buying more.
Posted by bethmacy on July 24, 2009
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2009/07/24/kamikaze-cooking/
The real faces of journalism
Charles “Hap” Fisher is pushing 103. He doesn’t hear well, he’s got a bum hip, and he needs a pacemaker to keep his ticker beating right. And yet every day he still pulls out his calculator, trying to bring new chemistry formulas into being, trying to do good in the world. “People who don’t work [...]
Posted by bethmacy on July 22, 2009
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2009/07/22/the-real-faces-of-journalism/
Staycation, with company: Recessionary rules for being a good houseguest
Summertime in a recession. My friend Melissa was bemoaning it just the other day. Many of her extended family members and friends can’t afford to go on vacation, so they’re visiting HER instead. “The first year we lived here no one came to visit,” she said. “But now we’re spending so much money feeding our [...]
Posted by bethmacy on July 20, 2009
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2009/07/20/the-not-quite-staycation-recessionary-rules-for-being-a-good-houseguest/
In praise of our friends the photogs
At last weekend’s Pictures of the Year International program, the winner of the Best Photography Book Award said it took him 10 years to publish his book, which documents the fall of the Soviet Union. In the meantime, Brooklyn-based photographer Jason Eskenazi made his living working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — as a [...]
Posted by bethmacy on July 15, 2009
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2009/07/15/our-friends-the-photogs/
Not quite Romy and Michelle. . .
Expectations for my recent class reunion in Urbana, Ohio weren’t high, but driving through the cornfields on the way to my hometown, I was full of nervous excitement, wondering how my two selves might converge: Would people only remember the class partier/clown who was always scrounging rides? Or would they see me as I see [...]
Posted by bethmacy on July 7, 2009
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2009/07/07/not-quite-romy-and-michelle/
