think globally, eat globally, throw functionally
"When life hands you plums, make tkemali." A year and a half ago friends in Southern Oregon had a preposterous bounty of plums, so many they were breaking branches on the trees. So many, in fact, that my relatives still have frozen quarts of plum juice and pulp. So when…
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The last of the Christmas/Hanukkah orders are shipped out. If you didn't get around to ordering yet: sorry! I won't be shipping more pottery orders until January 3.…
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(this is a reprint of a recipe post from 2 years ago) For Christmas Eve dinner this year I decided on a "Russian Jewish" theme. Partly this was out of a desire to have all of he food ready and waiting well before our guests were due…
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... continued from part 1 One glaze I used to have when I fired cone 10 electric which I really miss was one I called Verdigris. It was based on a Val Cushing Cornwall stone matt glaze recipe, with tin and copper so that the glaze was actually bronze: I've been…
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Folks who have visited me at a booth or Open Studios know that I make my own glazes. I find commercial glazes to be both inferior and exhorbitantly expensive, and I learned pottery back when they simply weren't available. So it's all glazes I formulate, or mix based on others'…
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Second Course (continued from Part I) The main choice I had to make for the second course was tagine vs. couscous. While I quite enjoy a good couscous — and let's face it, a major holiday is the only time I'll ever make couscous from scratch — I really wanted…
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