Café Kranzler: New American Cuisine on Padre Island
Open since July on South Padre Island, Café Kranzler is almost perfect. The outside is unassuming, like most of the [...]
Women Take Back Food
I felt very lucky after reading an article in Ms. magazine about women and the various movements to change food [...]
Arrest Johns, Not Girls
The summer issue of Ms. magazine (yes, I'm way behind on my magazine reading) was a great read. My favorite [...]
South Padre Restaurants, Off-Season
In the story I sometimes imagine for South Padre, all the hotels and tourist joints melt away into some future [...]
Restoration, Not Prohibition: Root Tea
Over on my other blog, Beth at Home and Abroad, I wrote about the comeback of Root tea, a true [...]
Root Beer Revival: Root Tea Returns
I love Bitter Bar. I love going there and saying things like, “Mix me a drink that will make me [...]
Women Need Restoration Most
Here's an excerpt from The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics, prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs [...]
Food Photography with Jennifer Olson at Euclid Hall
I've been posting photographs of food on my blog for two years now, but I've noticed the results are hit-or-miss, [...]
How Southern Utes Learned to Outfox the Feds
The Southern Utes are one of the few tribes that manage their energy resources to benefit themselves. They even have [...]
Why Garbage Is Golden
Years ago I forwarded an article from Audubon magazine to Eric Lombardi, executive director of Eco-Cycle in Boulder, because I [...]
Zombie, Zombie, Zombie…
I took so many cool pictures last Saturday at the Denver Zombie Crawl that I decided to put a bunch [...]
Mabel’s: New Café in Colby, Kansas
I must do one more Kansas post before I'm done with the state for now. I must. I know you're [...]
How to Make Electricity from Bacteria
Bacteria making electricity? Sounds like science fiction, no? But it's already happening at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, courtesy [...]
How to Find Barbie Dolls in Kansas
Last week it was Nicodemus; this week it's Colby, Kansas, right where Highway 24 runs into I-70. I went there [...]
Restore California Meadows, Help Farmers
Yes! magazine's summer 2010 issue focused on water, and my favorite article therein described the ongoing restoration of the Feather [...]
Hopeful Signs: Thank You, EDF
Out of the blue I received a newsletter from Environmental Defense Fund, appropriately titled Solutions. I loved the articles about [...]
Our Consumer Economy Isn’t All Bad?
How could that be? As Charles Redell points out in the Sustainable Industries blog, not everything we consume is stuff. [...]
Restoring History: Black Towns
Be kind and read my post about Nicodemus, the oldest continually inhabited African American town in the United States, and [...]
“I Just Blown Here” to Nicodemus, Kansas
Driving back from Kansas City to Denver at the end of September, I decided to go north to Highway 24, [...]
“Power Is Simply Our Capacity to Act”
Today I read an inspiring article in the summer issue of Yes! magazine: "Why Power Is Not a Dirty Word" [...]
Romance on Brush Creek in Kansas City
I couldn't resist just one last post on the Plaza Art Fair. When I was growing up there in the [...]
Art and Nourishment in Kansas City, Part 2
The first artist whose work stopped me at the Plaza Art Fair: Suzy Scarborough. I will remember Betsy Youngquist's art [...]
How an Asian Diplomatic Spat Helps Recycling
Depending on whom you believe, China is either reducing its exports of rare earths so it can use its supplies [...]
Art and Nourishment in Kansas City, Part 1
A week ago Friday, after hauling my dad to the lawyer, where nothing much was accomplished for a couple hundred [...]
Recycling and Your Kitchen Remodel
Coverings, Etc., recovers aluminum from old aircraft fuselages and makes it into tiles. The company calls it Bio-Luminum. Check out [...]