June 2, 2011
Vintage magazines, cookbooks and educational materials offer wonderful ways to better understand our culture in earlier times. Often featuring delightful illustrations or old photographs, these vintage periodicals can be found at garage sales, flea markets, library bookstores, and antique markets for a couple dollars. Recently, I found a school booklet from 1953, published by the National Wildlife Federation. Nearly […]
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May 26, 2011
It’s that time of year again … when the cool-season radishes, spicy greens and lettuces are growing wildly. Here’s a recent harvest of different greens from my garden, as well as three types of radishes. There are ‘Long Scarlets’ that look like red carrots; round ‘Purple Plum’ radishes; and pale yellow ‘Helios’ radishes from a village near where my […]
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