http://www.culiblog.org Food, food culture, food as culture and the cultures that grow our food Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:42:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My packaging shows a slightly more explosive recipe than the one listed below. Last year at this time I got into a bit of a kerfuffle with the local Pole Circle Police regarding the legality of foraging elderflower in the park. Turns out these ill-informed armed guards were under the ... http://www.culiblog.org/2012/06/elderflower-kefir-recipefizzy-bubblig-kinder-champagne/ Elder Flower Syrup Recipe / Basic Stuff (makes 3,5 - 4 liters of syrup) You will need: 5 liter jar 3 kilos sugar plus 1 kilo for later 3 liters water Elderflowers a'plenty, plucked, unwashed, bugs and all The flowers: Fill a 5 liter jar ½ - 2/3 -full with elder flowers. Flowers only, no stems. Absolutely ... http://www.culiblog.org/2012/06/elder-flower-syrup-recipe-basic-stuff/ The lettuces in the DemoGarden haven't even come up, yet this is the sort of salad that we've been eating for the past 3 weeks. All 18 of these vegetables grow spontaneously in our permaculture garden, most of them sown more than 3 years ago. This bouquet-eating abundance is a ... http://www.culiblog.org/2012/05/spontaneous-salads-neither-sown-nor-stolen/ Weak, Polar Circle light illuminating a dried pear Thanks for bringing those most tasty and juicy pears to the food co-op last pickup day. We bought 4 kilos and the next day had already eaten an entire kilo! The last 3k we dried because they were threatening to go soft. Just ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/11/dear-annet/ A spore print, probably of an agaricus arvensis. What an exuberant spore print, probably of an agaricus arvensis, or maybe an agaricus campestris, possibly an agaricus bitorquis, or if I'm lucky, an agaricus silvicola. They're all edible. Still, most likely it's a horse mushroom, agaricus arvensis. I found it along the ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/11/the-spore-report/ The author's fridge, filled with home-ferments, foraged, syruped, home grown greens, raw milk and vodka! At the moment my fridge is filled with the bubbling product of home-fermented foods, lots of home grown and a visit to milk lady at the farmer's market. A few days earlier Mark Menjivar's photo essay ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/09/a-fridge-eye-view-of-urban-agriculture/ Dutch text below is not a direct translation. Imagine this: you're an internationally recognised Dutch cultural institution of art/design/media culture. You have a substantial collection; media art, landscape art, but also paintings/ sculptures/ installations/ photography/ film/ design objects/ and artist-activist works in the public space that regenerate your city's ill-planned urban ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/06/this-weekend-massive-dutch-protests-against-the-obliteration-of-cultural-funding/ The Shipwreck Contains the Ship, Urbaniahoeve installation at ARCAM in conjunction with Farming the City Saturday 7 May at 16.00h, is the closing event of the Farming the City exhibition at ARCAM. URBANIAHOEVE's phytoremediation installation on ARCAM island, titled 'The Shipwreck' will be dismantled and distributed to guests. Do not ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/05/phytoremediation-at-arcam-the-shipwreck-contains-the-ship/ Some folks are all talk and no do, but this last year, I've been all do and no talk. Apologies for my extended absence and may this post mark a movement towards striking a balance between the two. Foodscape Schilderswijk: kids initiating the planting of the Wellington Hof Plum Orchard In ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/05/do-and-talk/ To encourage success in completing difficult, unrealistic New Year's resolutions (like daily blogging and yoga practice), I tend to spike my list with easily attainable, readily achievable, things that happen anyway. Usually these resolutions occupy the esoteric slash culinary realm, like learning to brew beer (2011), or the domestic slash ... http://www.culiblog.org/2011/01/the-citron-il-cedro-sunshine-of-my-resolutions/