Quick look at climate

Climate solutions
Looking at pg.39, states lacking climate action plans (Sep 2007) are just the states which had higher temperatures than normal in July 2006 (pg. 19 Earth the biography)

Aug 23, 2009

Top of the stack

Best American magazine writing 2007
He Knew he was Right - Ian parker. I began reading thinking its the same as the movie, not that I am dissapointed that it isnt. Very enjoyable read. A good example for profile writing. I hope to get to read more such.

Murdering the Impossible - Caroline Alexander. Having seen a documentary on Messner, I really appreciated this essay.

May 24,2010

Real time

Looking at an ad in which many young men and women sing and dance in coordination at a shopping mall. It has to be the nth time after rehearsal.
Theatrical plays.

French word a day

The Neighborhood project
NYT review

Tomatoes

I heard of Tomatoland on npr.
As kids my sister and I helped my grandparents pick tomatoes on their farm. At the end of the day, when it was time to pack them off to the market, we looked for odd shaped ones to keep and eat.
NYT review
review

Its dark knowing the horror stories of pickers who work on the tomatoland.

I picked up Milk, to see if I can find an explanation behind antibiotics role in damaging the bacteria adults need to digest milk. I heard from my colleague that he became lactose intolerant after a dose of antibiotics.
This is not a first book on the history of milk. Milk: the surprising story of milk through ages.

Crash's law

Try this - traveling the globe without leaning the table. While flipping through the pages, I found the words 'Rachel Ray' and picked it.
Long time ago, I was trying to recall Paneer Lababdar, after having had it on a flight.
Authors site
The author while talking about British cuisine says that beer is the third most popluar beverae. I was curious to know what were the top two - water, tea, coffee. I chanced upon A History of the world in six glasses.
Soup dumplings, where the aspic inside melts into soup.
Mapo tofu
Lechon Asado
Arroz moro
Tostones
fufu - caribbean. The author says that cuban cuisine uses plantains like Americans use potatoes. But there are potato dishes like Papas rellenos in Cuban cuisine. A menu revealed Tostones rellenos. Are there any other kind of rellenos? Please stand up.
Pollo Manigua
I saw a video by Sanjay Thumma on how to make Rasmalai. The kneading and heating part of it sounds similar to the process explained by the author about making Mozzarella.
The author explains the emergence of american sushi like California roll and Philadelphia roll.
Robatayaki
perfection - sushi can be made to have the rice grains all in one direction
wagashi
The author explains that the reason for having around 150 banchan- side dishes in Korean food is to balance the hot,cols, spicy, sour,sweet according to yin-yang philosophy.

Illuminations, a translation of Rimbaud's poetry by John Ashberry

I was taken by Finding Everett Ruess, right when I saw it on Amazon's Vine newsletter.

Authors interview
Chris Mccandles and Into the wild

I am reading Night of the Republic. A review said its accessible poems but I find them untenable, even though they are of common places and everyday situations like scenes from a department store. The poet does have his style of bringing out a pattern in the endless routine arrangement of commodities, cans or shoes stacked high into the ceiling.I am looking for lines with influence like Say I starved from Ruess's 'Wilderness song'.

Journals and Diaries

I picked up Alfred kazin's journals without knowing who Alfred kazin. There's something about diaries and journals that we want to read them to know life and times of yours or others.
NYT article
Slate article
Washington times article

I was dissuaded to not read Tina's Mouth - An existential comic diary after the 'high school' got drilled into my head.

Food and preachers

After reading The Boy in the Moon, I wanted to know if Megans secrets will show the parent of a disabled child with different learning. I realise that I picked this book from Christian section. I am a bit apprehensive if it gets too preachy. I have a similar feeling about Love, God and the art of French cooking. Its coincidental that the
Authors blog has a title picture of chips and guacamole.

The Digital mom handbook

How to bring out the artist in the photographer?

My friend while reading through the pages of Photographing Childhood - The Image and the Memory found an answer to her photographer friends question of how to get natural photos of children who begin to pose as soon as they are in front of the camera. This from the explaining subtexts accompanying the photos. Even a casual reader can learn by comparing the pictures to how they would have taken them.
Since the subject is child and 'childhood' is the most favorite phase of life for many, nostalgia cannot escape from the scrutiny of the author. The author explains her projects of photography, the inspiration, conception and execution of them. She then moves on to the timeline, history and work of photographers from the past who have captured childhood. The conversation is continued with introduction to work of contemporary photographers and the voices in their work.
There is some technical knowledge about the different terms involved in the equipment. The book has a pull-out which puts information in a matrix form as to what to expect from your child in terms of taking their photos as they add those years. The importance of light in the book will make you start imagining how different a picture might be from different sites.
I cant help thinking how robotic I have been in taking pictures all while.