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In Greek mythology, Hypnos, the god of sleep, created a poppy drink to quell the grief of the corn goddess Demeter whose daughter, Persephone, had been abducted to the underworld. While Demeter mourned, famine covered the land. Hypnos’s drink forced Demeter into a state of gentle slumber and healing. She awakened comforted, and the world was made green again. To this day some farmers sow poppies among the corn plants to ensure a healthy harvest.
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“Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.” -Francis Ford Coppola
“When the community is connected to its soil the plants are not the only things to grow roots.” -I said that.
“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.” -Wendell Berry
We would like to welcome the most optimistic of fruits, the strawberry. Thanks strawberry, for reminding us of innocent summers and starlit skies.
“When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.” – Steve McQueen
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The trouble with pine nuts is that they’re nearly impossible to toast consistently (and of course, they taste so much better roasted than raw). Each time I’ve browned a batch, I’ve tried a new “technique” – on a Silpat in the oven on low heat, over low flames in a skillet, in a toaster oven – but no matter what I’ve done, half of them are always bitterly charred, and I have to pick my way through the batch one precious seed at a time. In this third recipe of our weekly video series, I’ve finally learned a solution to The Pine Nut Problem. You can cook them in frothy butter, risotto style, stirring continuously for just a few moments until they’re perfectly golden……
In 1985 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London published its “Good Design Guide”, a collection of the “100 most beautiful products in the world”. One of those products is the Opinel knife. It is also exhibited by the New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) as a masterpiece of design, alongside other industrial objects which have defied time. The simple but ingenious design, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century or more, is widely felt to have made the Opinel into something of a design classic.
Opinels are light to carry and not expensive to replace if lost.The models with carbon steel blades do require a certain amount of maintenance (regular sharpening and oiling of the blade to prevent corrosion), but if looked after well they will last a long time, and the steel blade and wooden handle acquire a pleasing patina with age. One of the foremost advantages of this simplicity of design and manufacture is the low price – other “classic” knives such as theLaguiole and Nontron knife are very expensive – which makes it possible to own several knives, perhaps in different sizes, colours or materials. The Opinel is cheap enough to be marketed in boxed presentation sets or as a corporate gift. Some owners even use their knives as raw materials for their own creative efforts, decorating the wooden handle with pokerwork or carving it into fantastical designs of their own invention. Opinel created the “Opinel wide handle” models aka “les ébauche” to cater to knife carvers. The traditional beech handle takes stains well, and is easily worked to a person’s liking with common sandpaper.
-Article from Wiki
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