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With Memorial Day weekend 2023 on the horizon, the traditional start of summer is on hand. And it's also the time of year for this backyard gardener to "direct sow" some sweet corn seeds. Seed packages note that "corn germinates quickly in 65+ F soil" so waiting until Memorial … [Read more...] about “No Mow May” 2023 Ending As Memorial Day & Traditional Start of Summer Approaches

Some brave souls at the New York State Library have been rummaging through its cookbook holdings to discover how American attitudes regarding the food we eat  have evolved during this young country’s history. They presented a brief tour of some of their discoveries during a … [Read more...] about Rummaging Through Old Cookbooks & Tasting Recipes: From An 18th Century Recipe For Pound Cake Using Rose Water To 1950s Cherry-Marshmallow Pie In Coconut Crust

What Your Food Ate, How to Heal Our Land And Reclaim Our Health (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY 2022), the new book by David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, is so self-explanatory that there’s not much left to say to them, aside from You must have put a hell of a lot of work … [Read more...] about Heal The Land & Reclaim Our Health: Our Interview With David Montgomery & Anne Biklé On The Proof Provided In Their New Book, What Your Food Ate

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a "non-profit open access publisher" which publishes the on-line, peer-reviewed medical journal, PLOS Medicine, which focuses on publishing papers on "diseases that take the greatest toll on health globally."  A research article concerning … [Read more...] about Both Coffee & Tea In The Diet, Alone Or In Combo, Associated With Reduced Risk Of Dementia & Stroke