posted by jim | June 23, 2009
This video may not be suitable for minors. It may discomfort the comfortable. I was playing Bucky Fuller’s World Game in the early 1990’s. The question came up as to what we thought would change the world and I remember answering the ability for anyone to speak to anyone else. I hadn’t used the internet yet, but I would soon. We all would soon.
posted by jim | June 10, 2009
photo by EraPhernaliasVintage; some rights reserved.
Here in the Mid-Atlantic region ripe mulberries are dropping to the ground and the black raspberries are about week from their season. These two plants found in places disturbed by humans-often where wood meets grass or trail-are my favorite summer fruits. Mulberries besides their wonderful flavor and varieties from white to pink to black (although some trees are just tasteless) contain the polyphenol resveratrol. The best mulberries will fall off the tree as you touch them and stain your fingers. I love to eat them while I’m out biking on hot, sticky afternoons; or to put them on my breakfast cereal. My wife hoping to make a jam instead made a syrup for our pancakes (they are low in pectin). One easy way to collect a bunch is to lay down plastic or a cloth (you don’t mind getting stained) and shaking the tree branches. The ripe ones will fall to the ground.
Not everyone likes Mulberries fresh, but fresh black raspberries (I have found pink ones on occasion) are a treasure. But don’t eat them all fresh, bake some in muffins. The flavor and aroma is incredibly intense and you will weep when the brief season is over. Black raspberries are nearly as rare as morel mushrooms to find commercially.
One last thing (I know its hard) but sacrifice a few to the gods or least the birds. I have a large rock out back where I put some of the best berries to be carried off by the birds so they might spread my favorite berries close to home in their most excellent fertilizer.
Enjoy a free lunch!