a little round-up.

• a history of the taco.
• facebook's valuation in burger king whoppers.
• the veggie burgers i plan to make this week. 
• a space shuttle food truck. and it's for sale!  
• my garden project has a website. 
• i am going to be speaking about said garden project at the farm to cafeteria conference. 
• you should be watching food curated. seriously. every video rocks.
• and for kicks, the beastie boys's sabotage video with kids in their roles (thanks, blake!): 

see? i told you.

they are growing! i was going to put them in the garden boxes this weekend but it kept raining. so, soon. and i am going to plant some bell peppers too--with the seeds from inside a pepper from last week!

it's all happening.

1. the pepper plants are growing! i am hoping to put them all in the boxes this weekend. (blue bonnet buds are showing up, too.)
2. blue bell ice cream arrives in the triangle. oh, YES. it is "the country's best ice cream" and it is from texas, obviously.
3. i am going to write a law paper on why it's ok to positively discriminate against small farmers. oh my.
4. ben meier brought me black mission fig bitters from brooklyn. with a medicine dropper for dispensing!
5. we're getting bon appetit again. and got 2 issues at once. one with cinnamon buns on the front, which i have been craving for weeks, oddly.
6. the garden project is back in action.

here's how it goes.

1. my arugula has the teeniest little buds growing.
2. i know a lot about the slaughter of chickens in north carolina.
3. i have tried 3 different grilled cheese sandwiches in the last 24 hours.
4. there's a food truck rodeo tomorrow in durham with 30 trucks. i didn't even know we had that many!
5. i really love whiskey. the bar. and the liquor.
6. if you haven't heard, i also love america. there's a list of reasons that is WAY longer than this one.

4th.

i think it was the same year they built the log cabin. yes, a log cabin at my alma mater, kolter elementary.

i am not really sure i will ever understand why an urban elementary school needs a log cabin. it was apparently constructed with grant money secured by the pta, but it's weird. we spent a year studying americana and actually learned to quilt. yes, skills i never obtained. i can square dance, though. thank you, louis rossito.

but, i digress.

one year, we had a community garden. there were wild promises of salad. we watered this garden with some sort of regularity; i only vaguely remember walking to the street side of the school to work in it. (not to be compared with the other side of the school, which was "the big lap" and the "blacktop.")

the garden never produced the wonderous treats i had hoped, but when we ate it, i tasted radish for the first time. and did not like it.

i think the kids at ps6 are going to have more than we ever did; their school is spending well over a million dollars. farming is so trendy now; we were ahead of the curve.

an edit.
upon further searching, i learned that there is still a garden at kolter. holy moly.