Interior places
Surrender - bird banding
Deboned - tiny piece much like Diane Ackerman's natural history of senses - on ones own voice
A review
Net Galley Challenge
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life
Dont kill the birthday girl
Mickey mouse pancakes
Sabina Law
Dr Moreau
Rail Vodka
Midori
Mustum
Stingray cocktail
I know of pollen allergies, over heard of rashes caused by eggplants, read of matrix tests done to identify allergy sources, JLo's allergic reaction in MIL movie but did not know that vaccines are cultured in eggs and hence cannot be used by those with egg allergies.
When I look at the list of things the author Sandra Beasley is allergic to, it can be a nightmare for anyone to think of a non-allergic edible menu. Even if you do, thats all good on paper but what of all the contaminations that you have to take care as to not let even traces of allergens into the food. Such is the tough life that Beasley calls her own but that has turned her into an expert scrutiniser of contents of a prepared food and a foodie.
This book has a timeline of breakthroughs in allergy studies, extra paperwork that parents have to go through for the special care allergic children need, changes in laws and health plans for the allergic, peanutpedia, media perception of those who suffer with allergies, the rise of soy, current research towards solution and the extent to which parents go while taking care of kids with food allergies.
I liked the chapter on ritual of eating, how allergies much like 'to follow' diets wont let you mix well with people. The author's disapproval of a 'allergen-centric' mentality chef inspite of the limited food field available to her, brings out her passion for food even if Sandra-friendly without having to make substitutions. For someone with no 'Achilles heel' in food, the book shows you how having a food allergy dictates a person's life as part of society, more so in teenage life. Beasley's participation in various social gatherings is like Cindrella's clock ticking to 12 anytime.
Declaring ingredients for safety Vs secret recipes.
The book is a good balance of statistics, research studies, food trends, vital role of food in culture and personal experience.
Ferris Bueller's Day off
sunflower margarine
Youth allergies
Red Rover game
Biphasic reaction and Anaphylaxis
Stramonium
Leukotriene
Mast cell
504 plan
IHP
EAP
asthma in school
Nut free mom
Wheat in play doh
Soy Doh
Pyrazine
Allergy service dogs
Flint napping
In every family, at some point you must face your ability to disappoint one another
- Sandra Beasley
National peanut board
Skink
American vegeterian society
The road to Wellville
OAS
peapod
Shout
Allerglobal
Selectwisely
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Jimmy Stewart and his poems
German brown
Beau poem
The top step in the hotel in Junin is mean is a very funny poem.
German brown
Beau poem
The top step in the hotel in Junin is mean is a very funny poem.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
When wanderers case to roam
Alexander von Humboldt
Not sunny Donegal Bay
pony glass
hosta plants
A mosaic of routine and ordinary feelings, things, exotic hike aways, facts about travellers who 'stay put'.
The illustrations of different mud land, different rains with the drops gathering in puddles, sliding down the window or sticking slantly have a momentary quality.
Colorful mittens, shoes, tea cups all urge you to get snug in a comforter with loads of tea.
The illustrations are not all in colour and on paper - Taking a blind cat to a garden so it can sniff the flowers - imagining this leaves the reader with an image of a making of their own.
Alexander von Humboldt
Not sunny Donegal Bay
pony glass
hosta plants
A mosaic of routine and ordinary feelings, things, exotic hike aways, facts about travellers who 'stay put'.
The illustrations of different mud land, different rains with the drops gathering in puddles, sliding down the window or sticking slantly have a momentary quality.
Colorful mittens, shoes, tea cups all urge you to get snug in a comforter with loads of tea.
The illustrations are not all in colour and on paper - Taking a blind cat to a garden so it can sniff the flowers - imagining this leaves the reader with an image of a making of their own.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Table Talk
After Derek Walcott's, Horoscopes for the dead by Billy Collins was a welcome.
The Flaneur reminded me of his consolation poem about a missed vacation. Making the ordinary as preferred as the other.
My favourite poem in this book is Table talk
The Flaneur reminded me of his consolation poem about a missed vacation. Making the ordinary as preferred as the other.
My favourite poem in this book is Table talk
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Harvest poems
Vachel Lindsay
Villon
coin of the realm in Now they bury her again
When the coin reaches the stem of the funnel, it increases in size.
Vachel Lindsay
Villon
coin of the realm in Now they bury her again
When the coin reaches the stem of the funnel, it increases in size.
No prairie up to the stirrups
A Sand County Almanac begins with a strong wake up call like Rachel Carson's of there being no spring and birds.
I was told there'd be cake
I was told there'd be cake by Sloane Crosley
The pony problem starts as a simple cleaning papers after the final breath. The author ties that lose end by getting rid of it and this would be the time where a revelation would have occured to her about the importance of the collection she was going to sever had she not known about her obsession with the collection. People always wonder about how to dispose or to hang to the ancient heirloom things but is that just a case of the gone to face up to their hoardism with meaning only to themselves. Atleast her progeny wont go through that dilemma.
Christmas in July begins with her pyrophylic parents.
The pony problem starts as a simple cleaning papers after the final breath. The author ties that lose end by getting rid of it and this would be the time where a revelation would have occured to her about the importance of the collection she was going to sever had she not known about her obsession with the collection. People always wonder about how to dispose or to hang to the ancient heirloom things but is that just a case of the gone to face up to their hoardism with meaning only to themselves. Atleast her progeny wont go through that dilemma.
Christmas in July begins with her pyrophylic parents.
Wild Mind
When you take care of something, it lives a long time - Roshi
Its a simple fact but needs to be put in words.
My colleague gave me a pot with money plant in it. It seemed like it reached its height of growth. Another coleague thought it needs some soil.
Few days of watering, all the leaves started sprouting new leaves at the stem.Some long weekends, I forget to water it and there goes the growing spree flat. It does amaze me that nutrition any time makes them grow unlike us you have lost the chance after 18.
Its a simple fact but needs to be put in words.
My colleague gave me a pot with money plant in it. It seemed like it reached its height of growth. Another coleague thought it needs some soil.
Few days of watering, all the leaves started sprouting new leaves at the stem.Some long weekends, I forget to water it and there goes the growing spree flat. It does amaze me that nutrition any time makes them grow unlike us you have lost the chance after 18.
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