We received a delightful response from Elder M (she heads the South American WLBOTT Rapid Response Team) in an outcome to one of our Emily Dickinson blotts: I enjoyed The Programmer’s Guide to Emily Dickinson, particularly the divine kismet of the hexadecimal verse. Really fascinating. Makes me consider how the whole universe is basically math, […]
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“You say Tomato, I say Tomato” – Elder JimZim Two items of interest to our WLBOTT agricultural committee occurred recently. First… Elder JimZim and Grønk I had a good time gleaning. There were eight volunteers, 250 lbs in 1.5 hours. Many varieties of small tomatoes- different colors, etc. The farmer worked along side us. It […]
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Peanut Brittle
At the WLBOTT Experimental Foods Division, we’ve been experimenting with peanut brittle. Here’s the recipe we’ve ran our initial experiments with: Ingredients:1 cup of sugar (200g)1/2 cup of light corn syrup (160g)1 cup of peanuts (raw or dry roasted)(150g)1/8 tsp of salt1 Tbsp of butter, unsalted or salted (15g)3/4 tsp of baking soda (3g)1 tsp […]
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Go Waggies! A Garden Update
It’s been a while since we’ve given our gentle readers an update on the WLBOTT Ag Service‘s summer garden. Let’s Start with the Sorghum. We’re trying to mimic some of the main Texas agricultural products in the garden – sorghum, cotton, peppers, peanuts, okra, amaranth, and sweet potatoes. Our unpaid interns took a nice picture […]
[Thanks to Elder DZ for informing us of this Federal corruption scandal] Cyclospora Outbreak The timeline: [1] Cyclospora season: mark your calendars! The Daily Beast Snopes As Snopes previously reported, The Washington Post published a story July 16, which relied on anonymous sources, reporting that federal investigators had traced the cyclosporiasis outbreak to Taylor Farms. […]
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Waiting for our Veggie-Spam Sandwich
Why does life have to be so hard? I invited Sister Magdalena’s boss, Sister Contraria, to have lunch at the Ladle & Lube. I need to get on Sister Contraria’s good side; it seems she’s concerned about Sr. Magdalena spending so much time overseeing Fred’s penance (remember the whoopee cushion incident?) We ordered vegetarian spam […]
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2001: A Food Odyssey
Clementine DuCinema, WLBOTT film critic, here. I am constantly humbled. I thought it might be fun to explore the masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey through a culinary lens. Was I ever late to the party! There’s a lot of sites devoted to this topic. But hey, what’s one more? How This All Started My fellow […]
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Gleaning
Gleaning is a fascinating topic. It intersects poverty and plenty, generosity and greed, the struggles of the most poor pitted against the wealthy and powerful. In its most basic sense, gleaning is the act of collecting leftover agricultural products after the farmer has completed the harvest. There is always some corn or beans or wheat […]
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Estonia’s Kärdla Meteorite
Long before dinosaurs, before forests, even before WLBOTT instituted its Work/Life Balance program, there was The Meteorite. This is before Estonia was even in the northern hemisphere! By the way, during the neolithic era, Estonia was known simply as “Stonia”. It wasn’t until the tech boom of the late ’90s that the country became known […]
One of the first questions asked by the WLBOTT Elders is: Will There Be a Buffet? To satisfy this buffet desire, and in honor of our series on ancient Estonia, we created Ordovician Day at the WLBOTT Ladle & Lube. These are delicacies that would have been available at the time of the Kärdla Meteor […]