It’s spring and spruce tips are out. You can use them in jelly, spring tonics, gin and tonics, spruce salt, spruce sugar, spruce bud infused vinegar and pickled spruce buds. Captain Cook, the original maritime health blogger, had his men brew spruce beer to prevent scurvy. Charlie Papazian gives a […]
Daily Archives: October 1, 2018
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Wind kicked up on the north end of Admiralty Island where no one lives. Thinking it might be wind that sometimes blows for half an hour at the bottom of the ebb then stops, and being in the rowboat, I anchored near shore to take a nap. Woke up […]
Part II in a series on outstanding volunteer-run assets in the Capital City Marie Drake Planetarium is open. People find their seats, they look at the star ball in the center of the room. Above them is the white domed roof thirty-feet across. The place fills to capacity. Parents talk, […]
Stoves are meant to take the heat. Chimneys aren’t. That’s why flammable creosote in a chimney is problematic. As the Chimney Safety Institue of America (yes, there is one) points out, clean chimneys don’t burn. It’s spring. Trees are leafing out. Rhubarb and garlic are up in the garden. Finches […]
Why this is a great idea Forty percent of humanity still cooks and heats with solid fuel (wood, dung, agricultural waste, coal, etc) over open fires or leaky stoves. Deforestation ruins the land. Pollution inside the home kills over 4 million people per year; the majority of them women and […]
Smoking fish is like brewing beer in the sense that commercial operations strive to make a consistent product. People doing it at home strive to come up with something so good they have to call their friends at odd hours and say, “You’ve got to try this.” Smoking is the […]