Monthly Archives: July 2010

Big Pigs!

July 8, 2010 Posted by Issa under Animals
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The date for the processor has been set. Yorkie and Hampie, my very first two pigs, will go to be slaughtered and butchered on July 20th. It’s exciting and a little scary, and it came sooner than I expected. I’m going to really enjoy watching them these last few days, and I hope I really enjoy eating them when the time comes. I don’t think I’ve posted a lot about the pigs since I first got them, but plenty has happened. (And pictures!) Keep Reading

How To Make Sweet Tea

July 6, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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I grew up in Southern Illinois, which is “northern” by sweet tea standards. When I moved to Atlanta, I had to get used to southern sweet tea, and eventually grew to love it the crunchy-sweet concoction given in southern restaurants. Eventually, it had been a decade since I’d had sweet tea any other way.

I started trying to learn how to make it at home, trying all kinds of sweeteners from honey to maple syrup. I tried various production methods from adding the sugar to the finished tea to starting with a simple syrup. Nothing came out tasting right.

Finally, one day I gave up and just made sweet tea the way my mother did when I was a child. It was perfect. As much as a drink can do so, it was like coming home. A decade of southern sweet tea hadn’t erased the fact that this was how I wanted my tea. Keep Reading

More Endgame

July 1, 2010 Posted by Issa under Mother Culture
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Prior to picking up either of these books, I was already convinced. Jensen says “Civilization is not and can never be sustainable…” and “Our way of living is based on and requires…persistent and widespread violence,” and “Civilization is not redeemable. This culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living…” and I already agree. He makes bold claims such as “The only sustainable level of technology is the stone age,” and I don’t immediately jump to argue. Keep Reading

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