July 16th, 2013 | Photo Galleries, Virtual Tours, 1945, Arches national park, Arco, atom bomb, atomic power, Blue Castle Project, Cancer, Church Rock, Columbia, Crators of the Moon, Durango, EBR-I, EPA, Farmington, Gasbuggy, Hanford, INL, Los Alamo, Manhattan, Mesa Verde, Moab, Monticello, Navajo, Operation Plowshare, radioactive, Richland, tailings, uranium
Today is July 16th and the 68th anniversary of the testing of the first atomic bomb in 1945 at the Trinity Test Site, 35 miles SE of Socorro, NM so I thought it appropriate to post our recent tour of the North American nuclear corridor. I must confess it was a totally accidental tour. We had no intention of doing a ‘nuclear tour’. We were just trying to get away and have a break after my mother passed away from pancreatic cancer after a long slow deterioration. This road-trip turned out to be one of the best lessons in US’ dirty history that I’ve ever had and as I dig deeper into the rabbit-hole of this history, it feels as if my mother is taking my hand and showing me exactly where her cancer came from. Mom was born end of May, 1945 and died just before her 68th birthday. About two months after her birth the first atom bombs were dropped on Japan.
July 15th, 2013
Very simple, refreshing and delightfully delicious. So wonderful when lychees are in season and the weather is hot! 1 c fresh frozen lychees
1 can (330mL) coconut water
sprig mint Method:
Peel and seed 1 bunch of lychees and freeze overnight. The next morning simply blend the lychee ...
July 13th, 2013
The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they're extraordinarily strong - strong enough that some of them can support the we ...
June 8th, 2013
We just love Trout Lake Farmer's Market, Vancouver BC. Our recipe from today's haul features many local food businesses. The rough eye fillet is from freshofftheboat.ca, the lychees are from our local Chinese farm stand (we just love lychee season!), the butter in the buerre rouge is from a loca ...
April 7th, 2013
Well it has been a long and talkative day for us raw milk lovers here in BC so I will try to just do a quick summary of the speakers and some of my favorite quotes from each of them for the folks who were unable to attend the Fresh Milk Food Politics conference today. I have uploaded a bunch of ...
March 12th, 2013
The gut mucosa hosts the body's largest population of immune cells. Nature Immunology in collaboration with Arkitek Studios have produced an animation unravelling the complexities of mucosal immunology in health and disease. Nature Immunology homepage here: These images of the interna ...
March 8th, 2013
I stumbled across these amazing and addictive pickles while passing through Pikes Place Market in Seattle. It was perfect timing as I had just eated a rather cheap steak and egg breakfast and was needing some help digesting it. The Britt's Pickles stand offers free samples of all of their pickles as ...
March 8th, 2013
Fermentation of the Future Dairy products are often fermented to improve their taste or preservation.
Fermentation of dairy products has been associated with beneficial health effects.
Can dairy fermentation be further optimized for superior consumer health? Using populations of ba ...
March 7th, 2013
One of my friends recently posted on facebook about picking up this amazing little cookbook Moroccan Cooking in a second hand store and mentioned that it had a recipe for thistle tajine in it. That immediately got my attention so I got me a copy off of amazon and I don't regret it! A big thanks to A ...
March 7th, 2013
With The Little Chilliwack Dairy back in the courts again it seems appropriate to revive this article about Alice Jongerden, written in 2010 by Chad Hershler. Hershler does a very good job of presenting the history of the Home on the Range cowshare and when the harassment by Fraser Health began. ...
