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The Impossibility of February, Maira Kalman

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

man dances on salt by maira kalman

“The Impossibility of February” by Maira Kalman from her blog on The New York Times online, And The Persuit of Happiness.

The Impossibility of February.  Read it.  I was fortunate enough to meet Maira Kalman in early 2008 at an intimate gathering to celebrate the publication of The Princples of Uncertainty.

I was transfixed by how her eclectic, almost frenzied, candidness about things sad, lonely, and unresolved allow her have an aura that is markedly peaceful, collected and content.

For each person to discover the craft that best channels one’s own raw, gritty core–be it painting or poetry, guitar or gardening, jogging or just sitting in silence–is the path to organic happiness.

The kind of happiness you don’t have to try for.

The type of happiness you don’t have to convince yourself of.

The manner of happiness you don’t put on a show about.

The sort of happiness that makes February, well, possible.

The man dances on salt.

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Produce in Season Chart

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Produce in Season from Foundry:

Keep track of the freshest produce in season. Display it in your kitchen, or keep it tucked away with your favourite recipe books and your culinary delights will never have tasted so good.

As you may have guessed by the spelling of favourite, Foundry’s not an American company.  In fact, it’s Australian with Italian and Dutch influences.  Which leads me to believe that “Produce in Season” may be obselete (or at best, confusing) for those of us in the US.

Still, we can all appreciate pretty charts with fun information to read after we’ve memorized the cereal box.  (Or Marmite bottle or clotted cream liter litre or whatever.)

(Via SwissMiss)

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In Season: Apples

Monday, October 13th, 2008

There are two types of people: those for whom season dictates food choices, and the rest of us.

Until recently it didn’t occur to me to think too much about seasonality when grocery shopping, choosing a recipe out of a cookbook or ordering at a restaurant. Sure, if a particular item was bountiful I might be drawn to it, but it was more afterthought than forethought.

Reading books about food has helped make local seasonality a prime consideration in my food choices. After foregoing the supermarket’s expensive Australian apples all summer, I am very glad for a dozen apple varieties to be in their prime in New York currently. Today I went apple picking at Weeds Orchard (great name). 89 cents per pound, crisp and juicy, and a perfect complement to brisk October air.

Now if only I can do without asparagus for six more months….

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