July 24th, 2011 | Blog, References, corporation, CS Lewis, future, institution, merlin, mistake, Monsanto, review, science fiction
This is a post I have been meaning to write for ages, its been floating about my head for a couple years, so I should be able to say what I mean by now. I just went through all of my old notebooks and whatnot trying to find my favorite quotes which I pulled out from C.S. Lewis’ book That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups (1945). Unfortunately I couldn’t find any from the most recent read, a couple years ago, after I had started to make the N.I.C.E / Monsanto connection.
December 1st, 2010
Wednesday is the day I pick up my raw milk from a local urban drop point and it is also Real Food Wednesdays over at Kelly the Kitchen Kop's blog. She has a great round-up of all kinds of real food related posts and recipes every Wednesday from the realfood blogosphere. I have come to really look fo ...
August 10th, 2010
This weekend I finally fulfilled a long-time dream and re-read The Cook by Harry Kressing. For anyone who loves cooking or who is interested in psychology and sinister plots, I highly recommend this book. For anyone who has worked in the service industry, catering for the excessively rich and snobby ...
April 21st, 2010
I have been reading up on the diggers and levellers lately what with all of this land-grabbing that is going on around the world. Living in an apartment I always have my eye on any bit of land that looks fertile or even just neglected. Gerrard Winstanley was one of the original land-redistribution a ...
November 22nd, 2009
I was given a special treat this year for my birthday--lunch out at the Sha Lin Noodle House in Vancouver, BC. They don't take reservations so we crowded into the doorway to get out of the rain and hovered hungrily over the nearest table, the wait wasn't long and we were soon seated with a great vie ...
November 13th, 2009
I was very excited to get a message from a friend in London who was taking her man out for his birthday dinner to Mandalay, which is a very good Burmese restaurant in London, one of the few Burmese restaurants outside of Myanmar in the world. There is also a very good one in San Francisco and a coup ...
May 15th, 2008
GOOD FOOD: Film by Moving Images
"I hope the film will help generate grass-roots solutions."
-Producer Melissa Young
As the world breaks into rioting from hunger, Moving Images appears with the film, GOOD FOOD and puts the spotlight on the tip of a different kind of iceberg. Producers M ...
This is a post I have been meaning to write for ages, its been floating about my head for a couple years, so I should be able to say what I mean by now. I just went through all of my old notebooks and whatnot trying to find my favorite quotes which I pulled out from C.S. Lewis’ book That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups (1945). Unfortunately I couldn’t find any from the most recent read, a couple years ago, after I had started to make the N.I.C.E / Monsanto connection.
