The same year that the Elders gathered in Snook, Texas to consume chicken fried bacon, a terrible wildfire scorched Bastrop State Park (September and October 2011). The Drought Jeff Goodell, in his book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, talks with a south Texas farmer about a drought-ravaged […]
Once upon a time, long ago but not too long ago, Elder UC#3, UC#4-SU, Sally T. Intern, UC#2 and I met up at Sodolak’s Original Country Inn in Snook, Texas. The quest: a pilgrimage to the origin of Chicken Fried Bacon. Our get-together was in August of 2011, during a serious Texas drought. We both […]
On his birthday, UC#3 shared with us his admiration for monolithic concrete structures. We had brunch at Rudder Tower. They had some dining room set up at the top floor – was a fave for parental units when they visited. I will note Rudder Tower at A&M and the Stalin Seven Sister Towers are widely […]
Q: If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?A: Pilgrims As we were crafting the tale of Babusia Bott, the first Bott to come to America, we weren’t able to find much (i.e. any) information about her twine-constructed sailing vessels (because it’s not real). However, we can assume that her voyage had […]
I woke up today with serious Writer’s BLOTT. Luckily, an email from UC#3 was waiting in my inbox. Anchovies Are Always a Good Idea Dude – you were ahead of your time with anchovies and sardines.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/opinion/anchovies-umami.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb Regards, UC#3 This is both fortuitous and prophetic, and perhaps even onomatopoeic, because UC#3 was unaware that I had […]
The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived. The sense of smell has many functions, including detecting desirable foods, hazards, and pheromones, and plays a role in taste. In humans, it occurs when an odor binds to a receptor within the nasal cavity, transmitting a signal […]
Fish Farming Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. Worldwide, the most important fish species produced in fish farming are carp, catfish, salmon and tilapia. While fish farming is practised worldwide, China alone provides 62% of the world’s farmed […]
Derinkuyu Getting There Street View of the Underground City Early WLBOTT Presence in Derinkuyu The Underground World of Coober Pedy Climate Getting There Will There Be a Buffet? Glad you asked! Thanks to the Comfort Inn Coober Pedy Facebook page, we can enjoy a virtual underground buffet. The Underground City of A Boy and His […]
The Stream of Consciousness 6/5/2024 7:24 AM Gentle people – as we traverse the northern prairie on our way to the largest ball of twine, we need to stop at Wall Drug in SD to see the 80’ brontosaurus. We can discuss whether we go to nearby Mount Rushmore to see it before Trump gets […]
The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, The Guardian, The Hindu, and…. WLBOTT. Coverage Non-Coverage America’s Finest News Source Will There Be a Buffet? Of course. We’re not savages here.