12 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Show us the best email you received during the past
couple of daysmonth.It was from my boss...gotta love this :)
O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G JENN. PERFECT!
Books: Show us your summer reading list.
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.
This is a fantastic read. I'm only about a quarter way through the book, but it's difficult to put down. Provides a different and quite thought-provoking perspective on just about everything we consume. I highly encourage all to read it.
Synopsis:
"What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves? The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.
In this groundbreaking book, one of America’s most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves—from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating. His absorbing narrative takes us from Iowa cornfields to food-science laboratories, from feedlots and fast-food restaurants to organic farms and hunting grounds, always emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. Each time Pollan sits down to a meal, he deploys his unique blend of personal and investigative journalism to trace the origins of everything consumed, revealing what we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods and flavors reflects our evolutionary inheritance.
The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, The Omnivore’s Dilemma promises to change the way we think about the politics and pleasure of eating. For anyone who reads it, dinner will never again look, or taste, quite the same."
Video: Show us the next DVD or movie you're looking forward to seeing.
Just received it from Netflix yesterday. I will hopefully be able to watch it tomorrow night if I can pull my husband away from NCAA Basketball for a couple of hours.
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Show us a video that cracks you up.
I'm re-blogging this. It's just too damn funny!
Show us your favorite mode of transport.
Submitted by NomDeCocon.
I'd really like to be using snowshoes, cross-country skis or downhill skis to get around right now.
But, since I live in Minnesota and we don't seem to get snow anymore, I guess I'll have to stick to my good ol' hiking shoes as my favorite mode of transport.
Show us something sweet.
Submitted by Gina Argentina.
This is my niece, Evelyn, feeding Lady, our Golden Retriever, shortly before she was put to sleep. Lady had developed a large cyst in her throat, which kept her from eating much during her last days. Evelyn sat with her for nearly a half hour one night and fed her piece by piece. This was the last picture taken of Lady. To me, it's one of the sweetest things in the world.
Show us your favorite T-shirt.
Submitted by Elisheva Chana.
The entire time that Jon and I lived in Denver, there was a drought. Denver Water came out with these T-shirts to get people to stop watering their lawns - or at least limit it. One summer, the Denver Police Department hired 30 extra officers solely to monitor watering restrictions and hand out fines to home owners who were not following them. We never watered our lawn, and as such, never got into trouble with the law; however, our landlord was less than pleased. We actually received a letter from him advising us that we were breaking our lease agreement by not watering the lawn. Law or lease...which would you prefer to break? Oh, how I don't miss the days of bad landlords.
Show us something with three wheels.
100% electric cars used to deliver pizzas for Galactic Pizza in Uptown Minneapolis. If you live in the area, I highly recommend this pizza - not only for the pizza, but to see this guy deliver it to your door.
Show us your favorite animal.
Inspired by the Emporer.
The red-eyed tree frog. How can you not love these little guys?
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