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Closing the book on Grown Diaries
Much like the recent retirement of my End Pavement outdoors blog, I am ending the Grown Diaries site and moving its content into my Celsius1414 website.
I’ve been writing the Grown Diaries off and on since the second half of 2005, but with some very large “off” gaps. It also moved from being about experiments with eating fruits and vegetables, and more about linking to “interesting things” related to fruits and vegetables. Which I can do anywhere. :)
Thanks to everybody for reading! URLs should be the same, substituting “www.celsius1414.com” for “www.growndiaries.com”.
The “new” RSS feed is at http://www.celsius1414.com/node/feed.
Continue readingHealthy Cotton Candy?
A “Bag Full of Fun” that’s Fat Free, Sodium Free, and Cholesterol Free. Must be healthy, eh?
They were so intent on getting the word out on how healthy their cotton candy was that they ran out of room for “tastes good” on the bag.
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Tagged food, Grown Diaries, nutrition, photography
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Jumping Jehosaphat…er Banana Spider!
Yes, as if the produce section weren’t frightening enough, now you have to watch out for Brazilian Wandering Spiders wandering around the bananas.
TULSA, OK — The world’s deadliest spider found in a Tulsa grocery store. An employee at Whole Foods Market at 1401 East 41st Street found a Brazilian Wandering Spider wandering around in their produce section.
The store handed the spider over to biologists at the University of Tulsa who say that employee is lucky to be alive.
According to Wikipedia,
The Brazilian wandering spiders (Phoneutria spp.), armed spiders (“aranhas armadeiras”, as they are known in Portuguese) or banana spiders (not to be confused with the relatively harmless species of the genus Nephila) are a genus of aggressive and highly venomous spiders found in tropical South and Central America. These spiders are members of the Ctenidae family of wandering spiders.
The Brazilian wandering spiders appear in the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 as the world’s most venomous spiders and are the spiders considered directly responsible for most human deaths due to envenomation from spider bites.
So, yeah, look twice before picking up your next bunch. :)
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Tagged bananas, Brazil, food, Grown Diaries, insects, learning, spiders
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California Mandarins
Cuties-brand California Mandarins. These are a bit on the pricey side, but they’re quite tasty and juicy.
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Tagged California, food, fruit, Grown Diaries, photography
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Healthy is as healthy does
Newsweek — “Five ‘Healthy’ Snacks That Aren’t So Healthy”:
Continue readingDon’t be so quick to feel virtuous when you reach for dried fruit instead of chocolate, or veggie chips instead of Pringles. Many snacks that are marketed as being great for your waistline actually aren’t that much better—and, in some cases, are worse—than some popular notoriously indulgent treats.[...]
Tagged body, food, Grown Diaries, health, nutrition
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The art of baking bread
Continue readingBatch to batch, crust to crust … In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings (wheat and yeast, starch and heat) that give us our daily bread. Try not to eat a slice.
Tagged baking, bread, cooking, food, Grown Diaries, TED
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