The Folks at Food Not Lawns Will Be So Disappointed

Review: The $64 Tomato, by William Alexander

Froot Loops: A Smart Choice
In the book In Defense of Food, one of the things Michael Pollan discussed was "nutritionism", which is thinking of food only in terms of their nutrients, rather than in terms of the whole food. One distinguishing feature of "real" food is the general lack of nutritional claims.In a grocery store, in the aisles of processed food, you'll see plenty of labels on the packages boasting of the great nutritional contents and the wonderful health benefits of the product. "High in Vitamin C!" "Heart Healthy!" "Bursting with Anti-Oxidants!"Meanwhile, in the next aisle over, you'll find broccoli, with no nutrition and h

Attack of the Killer (Brandywine) Tomatoes
Today's garden harvest: 19 pounds of Brandywine tomatoes.Tomorrow's cooking activity: Making tomato sauce. Lots of tomato sauce!I like tomatoes, but sheesh! Remember that book, The $64 Tomato? I think it's safe to say that our tomatoes are costing us far less than that!

Homemade Pizza!
We've got tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. We planted 8 Brandywine heirloom tomato plants, and they have been producing plenty of massive, tasty, gorgeous red tomatoes! I like tomatoes, but I can only eat so many straight off the vine! We needed to find a way to use them up in large quantities.Enter our desire for local pizza!Recently, when our hankering for pizza has been too strong to ignore, we've been ordering from Fratello's Pizza & More. True, the food isn't local, but the business is 100% local, operated by a couple of brothers (thus the name, since "brother"

We Have Internet Again! How Exciting!
We finally have working Internet access again! Comcast came out and replaced the line to the house. Bingo! It all works again! I just wish I had called them to start with, rather than wasting time trying to diagnose and correct the problem myself! Oh well, live and learn! I'll be posting something more substantial later, but I wanted to get this posted now. Stay tuned!

I'm Not Dead Yet
I'm not dead, but our Internet connection is. A few weeks ago, we began having intermittent outages. Then frequent outages. Now it's down pretty much all of the time, with occasional brief periods of uptime. After calling Comcast to fix it, then canceling the service call because I thought I had figured out the problem, I've finally reached the conclusion that it really is Comcast's fault area of responsibility. Hopefully they'll be able to fix the problem this weekend. (Don't worry, I'll be writing a much longer dull post explaining the saga in mind-numbing detail.)