What constitutes a "cook's kitchen" ? (and a slight introduction)
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Comments (25)Not necessarily. A symmetrical house does not require a similarly symmetrically planned garden to generate a coordinated look. It depends totally on how the entire landscape is approached as well as the greater context. In fact, a distinctly asymmetrical (and by extension, a more informal or casual) landscape plan can soften the starkness that often accompanies very symmetrical architecture. Like KarinL's, my own home is extremely symmetrical - a Cape Cod style with a perfectly centered entry flanked by identical windows spaced exactly the same on the facade. The only thing NOT symmetrical about the structure is its placement on the lot - one side yard is approximately double the width of the other. And the narrow side has (had) a slight slope to a lower level. When we purchased the house, the front landcaping consisted only of a large, diseased conifer at the crest of the slope, pretty much a blank slate. The rest was lawn, bisected by the front walk. After living with the symmetry for a number of years and planting pretty much to accommodate it, it struck me that the presentation was much too static and well, boring. The walk was ripped up, the entry to the garden was relocated well to one side and a gradually curved, wide meandering walkway was installed to lead you from this offset entrance to the front door. The mirror image patches of lawn were trashed and became deep, irregularly shaped planting beds. The only concession to symmetry is the proportion and balance of the planting masses. The effect now is a much more aesthetically interesting presentation. But these are indeed landscape design issues and perhaps more appropriately addressed in the appropriate forum. But it is important to remember that there are no hard "rules" when it comes to landscaping and just because one has a home with a very symmetrical appearance, it does not necessarily follow that the landscaping must echo that symmetry. I'd venture to say that you will have a far more interesting and successful landscape if it does not....See MoreStopMowing.Com
Comments (12)A forest will choke out a thicket, I often recomend that fruit and nut trees be planted on purpose, so that we lock up carbon and produce food for ourselves, and chocke out the brush plants that are unpleasent to walk through. When you go on a hike along a tail it seems that you are always either bordered by clearing/lawn or by a thicket, but once you break through that thicket you can useually travle quite quickly and easily and have plenty of space to move about. The main reasonfor removing trees and brush historicly wasn't to make things more pleasent, it was to open up land for agricultural use. with a field we can grow staple cerial grains, or legumes, or use it as pasture for animals, while some trees may provide seasonal food for some critters it takes alot of work to survive off of them year round (and trust me when I say thing, willow does not taste that good) . Our modenr day lawns were not contrived from thin air, you need to look at were they came from to understand how they fit in. Lawns are popular mainly in the south (sure, lots of people like them, but in the south they are sick for them) the south had a large portion of its caucasian inhabitants come from scotland (the southern drawl is very closely related to the scots accent) in schotland they have huge green field that are kept down to a few inches all summer long, this is because there is alot of rain and people raise sheep. Now, in the south there isn't as much water in the summer, and there aren't as many sheep, but people still liked the look of home so a lawn with mowers and irrigation is what they came up with....See MoreRaw flour dangerous to eat?
Comments (25)Lars, that was my original question because I'd read against eating raw flour - I don't think it was limited to just white flour. It was because of ecoli in the product (I since have read elsewhere to not eat raw flour, so I don't). I suspect the ecoli gets into the flour in the mills, or even from the harvest fields. I know they (FDA) allow a certain # of impurities in our food. I would imagine that feces from vermin in both the fields and the processing plants (how could you ever keep mice and rats from getting into a large facility) end up in our food. Or who knows. Here is a more recent report from the CDC, showing that people DID become ill from eating raw flour. https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2019/flour-05-19/index.html Here is info on another, earlier problem: https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/fda-investigated-multistate-outbreak-shiga-toxin-producing-e-coli-infections-linked-flour eta: one more to read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6395439/ It's long and scientific, but: Conclusion In conclusion, findings of the present work further confirmed that EHEC and Salmonella could survive for extended periods in wheat flour stored at typical conditions used at home and commercial settings. Heat treatment is an effective method for mitigating risk of EHEC in flour but is more limited in case of Salmonella. On the other hand, storing produced flour at slightly high temperatures (35°C) for a minimum period of 2 months before distribution can be an effective substitute strategy affecting both EHEC and Salmonella. Results from this study further improve our knowledge regarding risk assessment and management, such as predicting thermal process lethality of EHEC and Salmonella in flour....See MoreFrom Book to Screen
Comments (42)Lucky you, Vee, to have seen so many stage performances. I never had the opportunity even when I lived in London to see more than a handful. I was too busy and didn't run with the right crowd, apparently. The ones I did see were entirely forgettable. Thanks, I hadn't thought of Caine, Harvey, Harris, and Finch. I always thought Harvey was such a super-serious actor that I was astonished and delighted when he did a striptease! in "The Magic Christian," that piece of insanity with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. I've heard about E. Flynn's wildness, but whatever it was that so many found appealing about him passed me right by. Do you think English females and males have quite different views and opinions of films? I ask because I went out with two English fellas who did not want to watch British films when we were trying to make a decision on what pictures to see; they only wanted to see American movies starring the likes of Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, and George C. Scott. In fact, I had never heard of Bronson before this particular English boyfriend took me to see one of his films. I also saw "Patton" with this fella. He was so annoyed with the portrayal of Montgomery that it's the part I remember best. I asked both of these men why they didn't want to see English films? They both had basically the same answer but one was particularly succinct: "English actors are w__ers." Surely that attitude is no longer common, if indeed it was common back then. Are there American actors and movies that you particularly like? I haven't seen you mention many/any, if you do. Some of my female English friends have said that American actors might be dream-worthy but they're just too inaccessible for them....See Moretea4all
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