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April 25, 2014

Here’s Kombucha

Alright, I admit it looks funkadelic. Those are bacterial tendrils trailing from a floating SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast). My SCOBY is content...

Sourdoughs and SCOBYs

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April 20, 2014

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward *** (of 4)

A fighting pit bull in southern Louisiana gives birth to puppies. A black family is squeaking by: Daddy drinks too much; Skeetah only cares about...

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April 16, 2014

Meyer Lemons

A trio of Meyer Lemons about to donate some juice to my Rooibos Kombucha. They say that the kombucha SCOBY really only works on a...

Sourdoughs and SCOBYs

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April 16, 2014

One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson **** (of 4)

The summer of 1927 begins with the worst rains the United States has endured in a century or more. The Mississippi has flooded millions of...

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April 16, 2014

Still Foolin’ ‘Em by Billie Crystal *** (of 4)

Billy Crystal is turning 65 years old and writing his memoir. It’s one-third stand-up (far and away the best part), one-third autobiography, and one-third Hollywood...

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March 31, 2014

Sycamore Row by John Grisham **** (of 4)

It is the mid 1980s in Mississippi and Seth Hubbard, a cantankerous old buzzard, and self made millionaire hangs himself. Just before setting out for...

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March 30, 2014

Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff *** (of 4)

To ferry supplies, munitions, and personnel to the European front in WW II required skipping across allied airfields in Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. The major...

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March 19, 2014

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris *** (of 4)

Robert Harris makes his living fictionalizing famous historical events (see Pompeii). In this case, it is the end of the nineteenth century, and the French...

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March 9, 2014