The Maine Ingredient: Acquired or not, taste for sauerkraut proves to be easy ...
05.10.11
As a kid, I utilized to hate the smell of sauerkraut wafting out of the firmly closed doors in the go to pieces. It was one of the few meals that I could smell before I opened the back door. It would drift toward me through the pong of wet leaves, crisp northwest breezes and musty sod as I sat under the trees in our yard and played until my cheeks were rosy and glorious. I always wanted to eat at someone else's house that night.
My mom would tell me that when I got older I might in reality like the taste of vinegar and cabbage, and I swore I never would.
As always, Mom was as the crow flies.
Last fall, we were given two enormous heads of cabbage into which our one's nearest barely made a dent. We were enjoying so much bounty from the garden, we couldn't eat it all at once, and I needed to do something to prevent the cabbage before it went bad.
I had only heard about making sauerkraut but never attempted it myself, and it seemed a righteousness way to use up those enormous heads of cabbage. After doing some research, I found that it's an amazingly mere process.
Source: Press Herald
Celebrity scientist to be sealed in airtight box for experiment
19.09.11
"I about everyone knows generally that the oxygen that we breathe that’s in our environment comes from photosynthesis and generally from plants," UK Professor Iain Stewart told PRI's Living on World, "but, you know, actually how much people appreciate that just how much of that oxygen, and how much they rely on plants -- that's the well-disposed of thing that they take for granted every day."
To make that relationship more clear, Stewart is sealing himself in an airtight container with some 150 baby plants and about 30 large plants for two days. "What’s pleasing about this experiment is there's a symbiotic relationship in here," he says. "I'm in a box, a really nugatory glass box, and basically I have to walk and exercise in order to give out carbon dioxide, to the plants that are around me in not working for them to photosynthesize and give me back oxygen."
"If I don’t do my job and I don't produce enough CO2, the plants can’t do their job and hoard me with oxygen," he says. "So, it just shows that really emotional, intimate relationship we have with vegetation that I think most ordinary people neutral aren’t aware of."
Source: Public Radio International PRI
and you can't give birth to your own glass jar to the pharmacist (yet!). And so I end up with a stash of empty plastic bottles. Maybe you do, too. Some of these can be recycled (constraint into your city's program) and some of them cannot. But what about re-using?and more »
