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July 11, 2012
scrip
If we take “an apple a day”, certainly one requires frequent doses of watermelon. It guarantees a rush of summer; a taste representing the whir of bicycle tires, crickets’ chirps, the site of rocky beaches, the smell of lake-wet towels, and the dizzy of a swing with the tallest, most handsome at the town dance.
November 19, 2011
Heritage Breed Terrariums
When Matthew Mead reached out to us to find a use for his favorite jelly jars, we told him it wouldn’t be something pedestrian like jelly, jam, preserves, conserves or whatever the heck Limeys are currently calling the stuff they spread on a crumpet each morning. These ridiculously cool jars (like so many things in this ever so talented man’s collection) needed some grass-fed, pasture-raised lovin’. Voila, Heritage Breed Terrariums. A jelly jar with a conscience.
April 10, 2012
strawberry sauce
We all know the pleasures of eating strawberries and some extol their aphrodisiacal properties, but none so well as Madame Tallien. Born to the aristocracy, given six names, and raised by nuns, this strawberry lover survived a march to the guillotine, bearing the fruit (ten) of multiple lovers and husbands (including the notoriously seedy and filthy Napoleon Bonaparte), several stints in prison and all of the great political and social shifts of the late 1700s. A style maven and risk-taker throughout her life, she insisted on bathing solely in the cure-all juice of strawberries.
