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Salon on Urban Gardening for Kids
Salon has a nice piece on bringing organic food to low-income neighborhoods through urban gardening projects. You'll have to watch a short ad if you're not a Salon Premium member, but it's worth it. It's nice to see teachers other than Alice Waters get attention for their efforts to make these projects viable in urban communities.
We're back from Boston. A full report will follow shortly.
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Tasty Events
Delicious reception March 15, 2009 2 - 6 pm Studio 1815 Polk St San Francisco Studio gallery on Polk St annual show Delicious features art work on the theme of food from 90 local artists. This is always a playful, fun show with paintings, prints, sculpture,...
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Urban Tavern Opening Party
I've been to a fair number of parties, and in my experience restaurant parties beat all others, hands down. One of the best I've ever been to was the joint fete for Epic and Waterbar. A lot of the same industry folks were at the opening at Urban...
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Clinking Glasses
Why do we clink glasses during a toast? It's not to prove the wine isn't poisoned, says urban legend debunking site Snopes.com. Read their explanation of this tradition....
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Next Year, Kill Your Own Turkey
Melissa's friend Novella has a nice piece at Salon.com about killing the turkeys she raised at her Berkeley home last year. I believe that everyone who makes the choice to eat meat should, at least once, do the slaughter himself or herself to understand...
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A Person After My Own Heart
I noticed this on Scott Rosenberg's blogwatching Salon column. Check out the Julie/Julia Project...
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