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Sporting an electric-blue awning, Culpepper's is a brand-new Bajan café a few blocks south of Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn's Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, home to Haitians, Jamaicans, Dominicans, Trinidadians, and Barbadians, who call themselves Bajans. The eatery is mainly carryout during the day, with a few stools ranged along a counter strewn with car-service and shipping-agency handbills, but in the evening the doors swing open to reveal a spotless white dining room that's quickly becoming an island clubhouse, where old friends gossip and business types toting laptops conduct impromptu meetings.
While the British colonial heritage of Barbados is preserved in its architecture and baked goods and the lilting speech of the islanders, much of the food is African at heart. Cou-cou ($8) is a steamed porridge of cornmeal kneaded with butter and flecks of okra that slides easily down the gullet. It's served with a choice of fish doused with a plenitude of wonderfully thin and aromatic sauce—red-tinged and slightly oily. With chunks of fresh tomato and scads of onions, it's strikingly different from the ''brown stew" gravy of other Caribbean joints. Though kingfish is a favorite, go for steamed flying fish instead, a real Bajan passion. Dewinged, deboned, extensively marinated, and cut crosswise into thin pieces with the hatched skin adhering, flying fish has firm white flesh and a mild, almost meaty flavor that goes well with the delicate sauce.
Or skip the porridge and order the Jamaican-style rice and peas, which can be topped with oxtails or, even better, curried chicken ($7) in a thin gravy that radiates the flowery scent of scotch bonnet chiles. The menu also includes Trinidadian-style roti, globular salt-cod fish cakes ($1 a pair, and delicious), effete-sounding tennis rolls (the English influence again) often utilized in sandwiches called cutters, and African American–style macaroni and cheese. Adding an island note, the patrons smother it in fish gravy.
Ten blocks north on Nostrand Avenue—we're in Crown Heights now—is Jerkin Chicken, a narrow carryout with a multinational menu, listing jerks, cowfoot soup, and other island specialties that may be unfamiliar to those born on larger landmasses. I was curious about oil down ($7), which prompted the counter guys to divulge they were from Grenada, not Jamaica—I'd stumbled on their national dish. This Fridays-only tour de force is a farrago of green plantain, cocoyam, corned oxtail, and dense flour dumplings shaped like swollen fingers, simmered for hours in coconut milk. A few pieces of curry chicken are thrown in at the last minute. With only a trickle of concentrated sauce, this ridiculously rich dish needs to be chased with an island drink: white foamy Irish moss ($3), made from seaweed; mauby, concocted of bitter carob bark; or sorrel, a blindingly red hibiscus-flower tea mimicking Kool-Aid.
With a name like Jerkin Chicken, you'd expect the signature product to rock, and it does (half a bird, $5.50). Though the spice coating seems thin, the succulent fowl bursts with jerk flavor, attracting throngs of patrons at peak hours. Even better is jerk pork ($6 per half-pound), a real oddity in this chicken-happy neighborhood: hunks of fatty meat—some surrounding bones you didn't know a pig had—oozing midnight sauce with a distinctively Grenadian flavor. Antilleans do know how to live large.


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San Francisco Ballet
Program 5: 'The
Waltz Project,' 'Nanna's Lied,' 'Connotations'
by Mary Ellen Hunt
April 4, 5, 2003 -- War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA
In a way, this pair of programs typify the SFB season for me: filled with anticipation and high hopes, which were rewarded with some truly wonderful dancing, but at the core -- I fear there's no other way to say it -- to me, there was a lack of inspiration programmatically in No. 5 and a lack of inspiration stylistically in No. 6.
Maybe it's getting to be the end of a very long season, maybe I'm just turning into a crotchety old lady. I often joke that on my grave will be written, "Loved the dancers, but not the choreography." Never was it more true than in Program 5.
Everyone seems tired these days and with worries hanging over everyone's heads from finances to health to war, it's been hard to get in the mood to enjoy much of anything. The overall gray feeling that has dominated my world seeped into a viewing of San Francisco Ballet's Program 5, a collection of rather gray works which included "The Waltz Project," "Nanna's Lied," and "Connotations." Of all the programs thus far, this was probably the least glamorous and most modern of SFB's offerings: a curious collection of what I think of as " and then there was that other ballet" ballets. You know which ballets I'm talking about: that third piece on a roster which serves to fill out the evening, but which isn't quite memorable enough to make a strong impact on its own. Except that this was an evening of them.
Program 6's "Jewels"
on the other hand, is an evening filled with sublime choreography. However,
without a carefully coached distinctiveness in the styles that separate
each section,--- Emeralds," "Rubies," and "Diamonds"
-- the evening threatens to become a long mush of pretty dances to music
of varying tempi.
Peter Martins' self-consciously off-beat "The Waltz Project" gave us the kind of interesting and angular contortions that he first experimented with in the "Calcium Night Light" era. Benjamin Pierce and Julie Diana lent their duet a sureness that put them a cut above the others; something about Diana's "Who, me, do something weird?" glances at the audience was pleasantly witty. And in a romantic waltz to music by Robert Moran, Pierce and Diana contrived to make the extreme choreography look entirely tasteful while still using technique to serve the dance.
This pert character was in contrast to the coolly serene Diana that played princess to Vadim Solomakha's cavalier in "Diamonds" the next night. Through the season, Diana seems to have been working on creating different moods for each character: slightly diva-ish in "Elite Syncopations;" young and warm in "Dances at a Gathering." In Diamonds, she was graciously and expansive, not in the manner of Yuan Yuan Tan -- whose "Diamonds" has the quality of a headlong rush -- but with a very refined elegance.
Tan, whose depth has increased ten-fold in the last two seasons, tackled one of (in my humble opinion) the most thankless roles in the entire run, that of Nanna in Helgi Tomasson's depressing, Weimar fable "Nanna's Lied." Her intelligence and resolve sparkled, even in the curtailed space of John Macfarlane's drab monolithic set and the manufactured drama concocted for the ballet.
"Nanna's Lied" somehow brings out a prudish streak in me. I find it hard to see interest in the unrelenting ugliness and oppression of her story or the choreography, which sketches out the degradation of an innocent a little too literally and tritely for me. The wonderful singer, Francine Lancaster, did justice to Kurt Weill's songs, but the ballet did not do the same for the kind of life and complex mix of emotions and motivations that Weill sought to express.
Yuri Possokhov, as Nanna's faithless lover, Johnny, was suitably indifferent, even brutal, but as his role has only a single note to offer, there wasn't much else for him to do. Much more enjoyable was his turn in "Rubies" in the Edward Villella role. I dare say that I haven't seen him have that much fun all year. Partnering with Lorena Feijoo, he gave her the solidity that allowed her to be her flirty self while his own technique --I'm thinking of his brilliant emboites offstage after the "chase scene" -- was fast and stylish, as usual.
SFB's queen of "Rubies" though, is Muriel Maffre. From the opening line-up, we're not sure if she's so much smiling, or smirking, but either way, she has us all in the palm of her hand. As the four corps men skitter around her, manipulating her limbs, she fixes this one then that one in her gaze and seems to assess the nerve in each.
Maybe SFB should have "In Muriel We Trust" engraved above the entrance to their building. As I've noticed before in other programs, her carefully thought-out, but very unusual work -- in Program 5 it was with Pierre Francois Vilanoba in Val Caniparoli's "Connotations" -- was the one thing that really made me sit up all evening. Of all the dancers, the choreography seems to be etched most clearly on Maffre, perhaps because her length makes it all the more legible onstage. But it's not only the technical aspects of her dancing that draw attention. In Maffre we clearly see how each step and impulse comes from within. A leg thrown upwards from nowhere somehow looks like a cry ripped from her gut.
Katita Waldo has something of that same "work from within" feeling about her dancing. Her role as the interloper/searcher in "Connotations" revealed a steely control, which was in sharp contrast to, say, her gentleness in "Dances at a Gathering" earlier this season, or her sexy turn as the street dancer in "Don Q." In "Emeralds" she gave us a playful interpretation of the Sicilienne. It was a reading that had less of the physical amplitude that Maffre or Diana have given the role, but was inviting, like watching someone wander in a garden on a sunny day.
Waldo has the breadth of experience though, to color her roles, giving "Emeralds" a quite different flavor from the other sections of the ballet. Only a few others (Maffre, Possokhov, Feijoo, Diana) seemed to understand that the key to "Jewels" was in the attention to style, that each section is differentiated, not by the steps alone, but by their approach to the steps and their bearing and attitude within each part. Given the modern economy, no doubt, few of the dancers have had the chance to wear a jeweled necklace of the dimensions to be found on their costumes, but even so, I wished that they could have convinced me that they were more accustomed to wearing emeralds around their necks.
Even so there were several good moments from the cast I saw of "Jewels." The more I see of Pascal Molat the better I like him, and I liked him a lot to begin with. In the trio of "Emeralds," his springy jumps and soft easy landings drew the eye away from his very respectable partners, Nicole Starbuck and Vanessa Zahorian. And as a soloist in "Diamonds," Dalene Bramer hit a solid balance in textbook perfect arabesque on one of her exits, that she held for what seemed an eternity. Perhaps no one really noticed it, because there was so much else going on onstage, but I found myself riveted.
Amanda Schull, who stands out when given a role that suits her, made a saucy, sneakered tomboy in "Dejavalse." Partner David Arce was a steady straight man to her boppy all-American girl. And the usually cheerful pair of Pablo Piantino and James Sofranko, gave the men's duet in "Nanna's Lied" a disturbingly predatory spin.
In the end, as always, I left impressed with the level of the dancing, but dearly wishing that the programming and coaching of the company were stronger. Then I mentally scold myself. Are these minor quibbles? Can any company really be expected to bat 1.000 all the time? Is it really all that important? The company is doing well, dancing stronger than ever, with an enviable international reputation. But it is important, I think, because these dancers, like all top-notch talent, deserve to be shown at their best at all times.
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Johnny Manziel and Blake Bortles took turns pleading their cases to the Texans yesterday. Saturday, Louisville quarterback said he thought he deserved to go first overall also.
"Oh yes, no doubt, I feel that I'm the best quarterback in this draft," Bridgewater said. "I'm a competitor."
He won't throw at the Combine this weekend, but will run the 40, saving the rest of his showcasing for Louisville's pro day. He said that was because he was a bit of a perfectionist (since throwing in a perfectly controlled environment makes it easier to succeed).
Bridgewater said he's bulked up since college, adding nine pounds to his frame already. As to the other physical concern, he downplayed his smallish hands (9 1/4 inches), saying "with my accuracy, my arm strength, my decision-making," it won't matter.
Bridgewater said he's met with the owners and General Managers of the Jaguars and Raiders already, as they try to gauge the quarterbacks leftover after the top two picks.
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Mocha Chiffon Cake
6 egg yolk
40g sugar
¼ tsp salt
80g corn oil
110g milk
5g Coffee Powder
30g dark chocolate (melt in microwave)
150g self raising flour
6 egg white
100g caster sugar
¼ tsp cream of tartar
1. Preheat oven to 160C.
2. Sift flour. Set aside. Heat milk to warm and add the coffee powder. Stir and let cool.
3. With a hand whisk, whisk oil, coffee mixture, egg yolk, salt and 40g sugar together until combined. Add the melted chocolate and mix again to combine.
4. Sift flour into the egg yolk batter and whisk until smooth.
5. With an electric mixer, whisk the egg whites till frothy then add cream of tartar and gradually add the 100g sugar and continue to beat until firm peaks form.
6. Fold in 1/3 of the meringue into the egg yolk batter until combined before adding the next 1/3 portion and mix again. Finally add the last portion and use a spatula to scoop from bottom and fold up until no streaks of white meringue can be seen and then transfer the batter into a 20cm tube pan. You can use a 22cm pan if you wish for a shorter cake.
7. Place pan into a preheated oven and bake at 160C for 70-80 mins until cooked. Temperature and timing is indicative only. Please adjust according to your oven. You may tent the cake if it's getting too brown.


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|Black Butler
The cover of the first volume of the original Japanese manga release
|Drama, Supernatural, Black comedy
|Yana Toboso
|Square Enix
|English publisher
|Yen Press
| Monthly GFantasy
Yen Plus
Siam inter comic
|Original run
|September 16, 2006 – ongoing
|TV anime
|Shinohara Toshiya
|A-1 Pictures
|TBS, MBS, Animax
|Original run
|October 2, 2008 – March 26, 2009
Black Butler (黒執事 Kuroshitsuji ) is a manga written and illustrated by Yana Toboso. Since its debut on September 16, 2006, it has been serialized in Square Enix's shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy. The series follows Sebastian Michaelis, a demonic butler who is bound by a supernatural contract to serve Ciel Phantomhive, the twelve-year-old head of the Phantomhive noble family. It was announced in July 2008 that an anime adaption, directed by Shinohara Toshiya and produced by A-1 Pictures, was expected. It premiered in October 2008, and has since ended with 24 episodes. However, at the Sono Shitsuji, Shūshō: Saigo no Bansan o Anata to Tomo ni (その執事、終章 ~最後の晩餐を貴方と共に~, "That Butler, Last Chapter ~a last supper with you~") event on June 14, 2009, it was announced that the anime will be returning for a second series. Seiyū Junichi Suwabe confirmed this news on his official blog later that day. The series has been licensed for an English release by Yen Press and was published by Yen Plus'for the August 2009 issue for the magazine's first anniversary.
In a manor house on the outskirts of Victorian era London, butler Sebastian Michaelis serves Ciel Phantomhive, the twelve-year-old head of an English noble family and a toy and candy empire, who serves directly under the Queen. Sebastian carries out any task required by his master while solving the problems plaguing England with ease and perfection, because of his demonic lineage and Faustian contract with his master.
Written and drawn by Yana Toboso, the chapters of Black Butler have been serialized in the shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy since its debut in the October 2006 issue.[1] The chapters are also published in collected volumes by Square Enix. The first volume was released on February 27, 2007 and as of November 27, 2009, eight volumes have been released so far.[2] Yen Press licensed the series for an English language release and will serialize the manga in Yen Plus' August 2009 issue for the magazine's first anniversary.[3] The publisher released the first volume in January 2010.[4] French publisher Kana licensed the series in under the Dark Kana imprint as Black Butler. The publisher released the first volume in November 2009.[5] Carlsen Comics has licensed the series in Germany as Black Butler, the same title used for the French and English releases. The first volume is due to be released in May 2010. [6]
On August 10, 2007 a drama CD was released by Frontier Works. It featured many of the characters appearing in volumes one and two.[7] A second drama CD was released on November 26, 2008 under the Aniplex label.[8]
In July 2008, it was announced that an anime adaption, directed by Shinohara Toshiya and produced by A-1 Pictures, was expected. It premiered in October 2008 and broadcasted on the Tokyo Broadcasting System as well as the Mainichi Broadcasting System.[9][10][11][12] On January 1, 2009, a limited edition DVD containing the first episode was released by Aniplex.[13] The next three episodes were released on another DVD on February 25, 2009.[14]
At the Sono Shitsuji, Shūshō ~Saigo no Bansan o Anata to Tomo ni~ (その執事、終章 ~最後の晩餐を貴方と共に~, "That Butler, Last Chapter ~a last supper with you~") event, on June 14, 2009, it was announced that the anime will be returning for a second series. Seiyū Junichi Suwabe confirmed this news on his official blog later that day.[15][16] The second series, Kuroshitsuji II, is set to appear in July and follows a butler, Claude Faustus, and his master, Alois Trancy, as opposed to Sebastian and Ciel. Both new characters were designed by Toboso.[17]
That Butler, Friendship (その執事、友好 Sono Shitsuji, Yūkō ), musical adaptation of the manga, had run at the Sunshine Theater in Ikebukuro between May 28, 2009 and June 7, 2009.[18] Yuya Matsushita portrayed Sebastian Michaels, Shougo Sakamoto played Ciel Phantomhive and Uehara Takuya as Grell Sutcliffe.[19]
Musical Black Butler, The Most Beautiful Death in The World, A Thousand Soul and The Fallen Grim Reapers (ミュージカル『黒執事』〜ザ・モースト・ビューティフル・デス・イン・ザ・ワールド〜千の魂と堕ちた死神 Kuroshitsuji Sen no Tamashii to Ochita Shinigami ),[1] musical adaptation of the manga, will run at Akasaka Act Theater (1300 seats) in Akasaka Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, between May 3, 2010 and May 23, 2010. Matsushita Yuya will be Sebastian Michaels, Yukito Nishii will play Ciel Phantomhive and Uehara Takuya as Grell Sutcliffe. Written by Mari Okada, Directed by Sakurako Fukuyama, Music by Taku Iwasaki, Lyric by Yukinojho Mori.
A video game for Nintendo DS, called Black Butler: Phantom & Ghost was developed by Square Enix and was released on March 19, 2009.[20] The game is sold in two versions, a limited first-press edition with a higher price and numerous extra goods, and a regular edition.
On February 27, 2008, the Black Butler Character Guide "That Butler, Assembles" (黒執事 キャラクターガイド 「その執事、集合」 Kuroshitsuji Character Guide "Sono Shitsuji, Shūgō" ) was released.[21] The TV Animation Black Butler Black Record (TVアニメーション「黒執事」 Black Record) is scheduled for release on March 27, 2009.[22] An official comics anthology Rainbow Butler (虹執事 Nijishitsuji ) will also be released on that date.[23]
During the week of December 18 to 24, 2007, the third volume ranked third in comic sales in Japan.[24] The fourth volume also placed, ranked ninth during the week of June 3 to 9, 2008.[25] The fifth volume placed second during the week of September 16 to 22, and fell to third place the following week of September 23 to 29.[26][27] The volume remained on the chart for a third week, placing tenth during the September 30 to October 6 week.[28] The sixth volume followed suit and placed first from January 27 to February 2, 2009, selling 359,703 copies.[29] During its second week on the chart, the volume sold an additional 100,466 copies, ranking seventh for the week of February 3 to 9.[30] The third week, the volume continued to fall, placing ninth and selling 45,653 copies during the week of February 10 to 16.[31] During the week of June 22 to 28, the seventh volume ranked third selling 167,692 copies and remained third during the following week of June 29 to July 5, selling an additional 256,164 copies.[32][33] The volume fell to eighth selling another 66,954 copies during the week of July 6 to July 12 and fell to twenty-first during the week of July 13 to July 19, selling an additional 29,951 copies.[34][35] In addition to the volumes, the comics anthology Rainbow Butler ranked seventeenth during the week of March 31 to April 6 selling 41,083 copies after ranking thirty-third the previous week.[36] The fourth and fifth volumes ranked thirty-third and thirty-ninth of the top-selling manga in Japan during 2008, selling 529,210 copies and 468,550 copies respectively.[37] The sixth volume ranked thirteenth of the top-selling manga in Japan during the first half of 2009, selling 619,501 copies.[38] The series itself was ranked tenth of the top-selling manga series in Japan during 2009, selling a total of 1,603,197 estimated copies.[39]
The Japanese music distributor Recochoku has created an annual survey of which anime characters that people would like to marry. Sebastian Michaelis ranked ninth in the category "The Character I Want to Be My Groom".[40]


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I blame Bakesale Betty. If the blue-haired Aussie-American Alison hadn't lured me into her store with lamingtons and sticky date pudding I would never have succumbed to the charms of her legendary fried chicken sandwiches, which cause perfectly sane people to line up on Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland. For a sandwich. I kid you not.
It also doesn't help that Bakesale Betty is on my way home from my editing gig and I'm often ravenous as I drive by, doing a quick scan to see if there's 1. a line snaking down the street or 2. any parking.
If the parking gods and queue karma are on my side, I'm in and out with one of her sandwiches before you can say hello hypocrite.
Let me explain. I've been a vegetarian since I was 17, when I gave up meat in what my mum, a good cook, viewed as just another one of my rebellious teenage acts. Despite growing up in a meat-loving land, where the backyard barbie rules, I became a greens and legumes kinda gal.
For more than a quarter of a century, I lived the veg life. To be precise, I guess I'm technically a pescatarian, as I sometimes eat seafood. Especially in my hometown, Sydney, because — news flash — fabo fish to be had Down Under peeps.
So how to explain the recent chicken sandwich obsession? What can I say? I think I'm having a middle-aged meat crisis. Some 20 years ago I introduced the man who would become the father of my child to the virtues of a vegetarian diet. Hell, I married him at Greens. My 11-year-old kid has never, ever eaten an ounce of animal flesh. (His choice. I'm no zealot.) My blog is called Lettuce Eat Kale. I've watched Food, Inc. I frequent farmers' markets. You get the idea.
I should be a poster girl for a pro-produce life.
And yet…a couple of years ago around a certain time in my cycle I began craving protein. No worries, fish usually did the trick. Then I started to slip a bit when sharing food at ethnic restaurants around town. Chicken raised with love, care, good feed, and bucolic views began to find its way into my mouth. What the heck was happening?
I wasn't sure, but I suspected hormones played a role. I also knew I wasn't dealing with this particular omnivore's dilemma on my own. My friend Connie was a vegetarian — until she got pregnant with her first kid 16 years ago. Then it was off to the steak house for her and she's never looked back. My dance instructor, Amara Tabor-Smith, eschewed animal protein for decades — she didn't like the texture — and is now tentatively getting reacquainted with meat.
I'd always assumed, along with many others I suspect, that vegetarian cookbook superstars Deborah Madison and Mollie Katzen didn't eat meat. Not so, I discovered in the past year during chats with both chefs. Mollie describes herself as a "meat nibbler," and Deborah's not opposed to the occasional piece of grass-fed, local beef.
Their most recent books, Get Cooking by Mollie, and What We Eat When We Eat Alone by Deborah, include meat recipes. Still, both women favor a diet where greens, grains, and legumes dominate the dinner plate. Mollie supports the Meatless Monday campaign and both believe most meat eaters would do well to eat less animal and more plant foods.
Eating meat after years — or even a lifetime — of a solely plant-based diet seems to be something of a trend. For people who chose vegetarianism for ethical or environmental reasons, sourcing meat sustainably is now often a viable alternative to factory-farmed animals, and so some have decided to include it sparingly in their diet.
(Bucking this seemingly female shift, is wonder boy writer Jonathan Safran Foer, who dabbled with vegetarianism for years but fully committed after he became a pet owner. He will probably convert masses to the cause with his description of chicken fecal soup and other horrors of industrial animal slaughter in his recent book, Eating Animals.)
In this confusing time, I feel I've found a kindred spirit in Tara Austen Weaver, the warm and witty writer who blogs about meat and many other food matters at Tea & Cookies. I can so relate to the mental tug-of-war that underlies her recent book The Butcher and the Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp through a World of Men, Meat, and Moral Crisis. Tara didn't have a choice in her vegetarian childhood — she was raised that way by a Northern California hippie mama.
Several years ago, she started exploring eating meat for health reasons. Her descriptions of buying, prepping, and cooking meat resonate with me because I haven't actually ever gone and purchased a chicken or, um, chicken bits and made dinner. That notion makes me feel nauseous, to be honest. I don't even like looking at raw meat.
I know, I know, I'm the worst kind of turncoat. I leave the house to get a bit of hot flesh on the side. When my son stopped by home unexpectedly the other afternoon, I found myself hiding aforementioned cluck, cluck sandwich before opening the door. Clearly, I have some conflicted feelings about my dietary changes.
So what to call myself: A lapsed vegetarian? A vegetarian who cheats?
I thank the funny Adair Seldon of Lentil Breakdown for introducing me to the term flexitarian, which seems to fit for now, loathe as I am to saddle myself or anyone else with a label.
For the record, I seem to have no desire to move on to "harder" meats, like beef, pork, or lamb. (An aside: Why isn't it cow, pig, and sheep? I suspect it's a way for many of us to remain in denial about where meat actually comes from.)
And I've never had any interest in eating creatures I see on hiking trails such as ducks, rabbits, quail, deer, elk, and the like. But since chicken is becoming a somewhat regular fix (once or twice a month), I've learned never to say never.
My vegetarianism stemmed in part, from my inability to kill an animal, hence my healthy respect for folks like Novella Carpenter, who don't flinch at taking responsibility for ending the life of an animal they've raised for food. I feel cowardly in the carnivore arena by comparison.
Penning this post has probably blown my chances of ever writing for Vegetarian Times or VegNews (though I do think this topic is one such mags would do well to cover.)
But you won't find meat recipes on my blog, although I'm sure some veggies will unsubscribe in disgust at my wishy-washy vegetarianism.
That would be a shame. Because I am still the girl who obsesses about eating greens. Nothing makes me happier than a meal packed with produce. I am, to borrow a term Mollie Katzen used in a recent story on Civil Eats, very much a pro-vegetable person, a vegetabilist.
And I view healthy eating in much the same way I see sexuality. In my mind, most humans are basically bisexual, it just depends where on the spectrum you fall in terms of how you define your sexual orientation.
Similarly, we're probably all on an omnivore continuum, with some of us falling firmly on the carnivorous end and others of us way down on the other end of the line very much in vegetarian or even vegan territory.
In the end, come dinner time, it's a personal choice what we put on our plate and the justifications we make with ourselves and our sometimes contradictory culinary choices are our own to live with as we figure out our place on the food chain and what our bodies need to stay well.
I welcome your thoughts below.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010Very interesting post. Like many others recently I have sharply reduced the meat in my diet. The emotional satisfaction of eating meat has been strongly associated with being masculine in our culture. Similarly the absolutist morality of strict vegetarianism is something most men haven't wanted to be identified with. These facts had made it difficult for me to make the effort to eat more veg and less meat.
Your attitude as you express it here significantly lowers the hurdle for average joes such as me to make a move to a healthier diet. There are lots of us doing it and it helps to know that being "pro-produce" doesn't necessarily expose us to ridicule from our tailgating buddies on one hand or the vegetarian crowd on the other.
Thursday, March 25th, 2010Interesting + informative post!
Hello, I do eat + enjoy meat (red + white) but only once or twice a week, and recognise your craving for it. I guess that is just your body telling you that it needs iron, vit B etc. and I don't think there is anything wrong with eating small amounts of responsibly reared meat. But can understand that, as a "pescatarian", it might feel a little like you are selling out. Keep up the good work with your blog. I shall revisit and am already following you on Twitter. Best, Monique
Thursday, March 25th, 2010I eat meat, but because it is expensive and often more difficult to prepare than vegetables, I find myself eating more and more vegetarian dishes (replete with dairy, of course). Vegetables are delicious! And I think a lot of people don't realize or forget that. Which probably has a lot to do with how poorly many of them are prepared. Steamed green vegetables are sometimes very satisfying, but for many people, plain steamed veggies are boring, tasteless, and unsatisfying.
Eating fresh, seasonal vegetables are the way I keep things varied and tasty. :)
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Thank you for writing this piece. I have been coming to terms with what it means to be a lapsed vegetarian and I'm glad I came across your story.
I chose to become a vegetarian about 12 years years ago, for a variety of reasons, including "If I can't kill it I shouldn't eat it". I was never 100% strict, I would sneak a semi-annual piece of meat and feel terribly guilty after, but I never, ever did it in front of anyone else. A couple of years after becoming a vegetarian I started dating my now husband, who grew up with a pescetarian father and, so, was sympathetic to my choice. Sadly, he is also terribly allergic to legumes and nuts so for years after moving in together our shared diet was awful - when we cooked for ourselves we stuck mostly to the starches and dairy we were both able and willing to eat, and our health suffered for it. We were young and didn't really know better.
After some years of this I began eating fish on a more than semi-annual basis, but only ever with my husband. I thought that when I was around anyone else I had to maintain my strict vegetarian posture lest my Polish family find out and start insisting I stuff myself with sausage. After fighting so hard to defend my choice to not eat meat, I wasn't sure how to justify eating meat only on a few and far between basis. I feared the "meat in extreme moderation" stance would be too confusing. In the mean time my eating habits began to include chicken and the occasional piece of bacon off my husband's plate at breakfast. I was simultaneously eating less wheat and processed grains and for what it is worth, I noticed my body was responding well. I was less tired, my hair looked healthier and I didn't experience the same extreme grumpiness if I got too hungry before eating.
A year and a half ago, as our wedding approached I quietly revealed my meat eating to our close friends and family. I intended to eat the same chicken we were serving the majority of the guests at the reception (though we chose a caterer with an excellent vegetarian option) and I figured it might as well not be a surprise. While our families and friends are now back to the cultural default of offering me meat when they prepare meals, I don't find it as overwhelming as I thought. I still load my plate with the non-meat dishes and take a small portion of the meat dish if I feel like it. No one has yet put a steak in front of me, or insisted I eat the sausage. Between their own health concerns, recent economic considerations and the ever-shifting zeitgeist of dietary trends, I think the people around me are in a much different place than when I first stopped eating meat.
While including meat at every meal is still a very strong habit for many people, I think it has become less the overwhelming focus. I still cook mostly vegetarian meals for our friends on Sunday nights and no one stops coming over because of that. I've also begun to learn how to cook meat - I recommend trying to poach chicken breast as a manageable first step (with minimal raw meat handling) - and I work it in in a balanced way when I want to. I will go a week and notice I haven't eaten any meat, and I still, conversely, crave fresh fruits and vegetables after what I consider a meat-heavy day or two. I do consider returning to a vegetarian diet and I may some day, but for now I'm sticking with meat in moderation and I'm happily surprised to find the people I share meals with generally seem able to understand and respect that.
Monday, March 29th, 2010Hi Dave, Monique, Sarah, and Lauren:
Thanks so much for chiming in regarding your decision-making about what's on your plate.
All four of you obviously have given a lot of thought to eating ethically and healthily.
I think your comments illustrate that the old debate pitting omnivores versus vegetarians is obsolete.
Here's to a continued conversation about sustainability, sourcing food, and keeping veggies front and center in a mostly plant-based diet.
Monday, March 29th, 2010most interesting subject! when my cholesterol was soaring and I was adamant about not being on cholesterol meds indefinitely, I decided that the best way for me to approach this was to try eating vegetarian. I am not able to stave off the meat craving completely, but I eat fish several times a week and chicken about once every 3-4 weeks, and vegetarian the rest of the time. I have only done this for about 6 months now, but I am down 40 lbs and my cholesteral problem is no more, so I am happy with this compromise.


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Peel police have issued a warrant for a 35-year-old Brampton man suspected of sexually abusing a child.
Rodrigo Montesdeoca is wanted on charges of sexual assault, sexual interference and uttering threats that date from November, said Det. Sgt. Paul Pogue.
Pogue said arrangements were made in November for Montesdeoca to turn himself in to police but the suspect failed to comply.
"We've been in contact with his counsel and with his family since that time and we haven't been able to locate him," Pogue said.
Montesdeoca is 168 cm tall (5-feet-6) and weighs about 70 kg, Pogue said. He is known to change his appearance by cutting and dying his hair, police said in a statement Wednesday.
Police have no reason to believe Montesdeoca has left the country but little idea otherwise about his whereabouts, Pogue said.


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By Peter Egwuatu
Shareholders of banks whose managing directors were sacked by the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) following alleged misuse of shareholders' funds have called on called on the Federal Government to set up committee to review the recent action and policies of the apex bank in order to avoid a reoccurrence of policy somersault which significantly affected the Nigerian capital market in the wake of global financial meltdown.
The Chairman of Ibadan Zonal Shareholders Association of Nigeria, Chief Aderemi Oyepeju told Saturday Vanguard, " We, the shareholders are advising the Federal Government to set up committee that will review the dismissal of the five banks managing directors and their executive directors.
We don't want any policy somersault of the CBN because it was such actions that contributed to the crash of the stock market. You can remember that the CBN had instructed banks to adopt a common year end which made them to start asking the stockbrokers to pay up their margin loan facility so as to meet the common year end financial requirement.
It was at that point that the market crashed because all the banks were chasing them to recover their moneyâ€
"We would like the managing directors and executive director of these banks to be reexamined because the CBN was too hasty to take the action it did when there are other banks that are yet to be examined.â€
Mr. Adebayo Adeleke, Secretary General of Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria (ISAN), berated the CBN for the rush in taking the decision to sack the five banks' chief executives and their directors.
According to him, " From the responses we are getting from debtors over the state of their indebtedness to those affected banks, it shows that the CBN did not do a thorough job.
They should have done a thorough job before coming out with how much people are owing to these banks which led to the dismissal of these banks' officers.
There was a little bit of rush on the part of the CBN and now the action has caused a lot of panic and eventual withdrawal of funds from these banks.
" To remedy this situation, we are calling on the CBN to do more enlightenment campaign to assure investors and depositors that their money is still safe with these banks despite its action. They should also review the debtors' debts position to these banks and come out with correct figures to make its case acceptable and get needed confidence to move the economy forward.â€


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I used this book to guide me in the construction of my wedding gown. If I had strictly followed the Vogue instructions for pattern #2979, I would've ended up buying a gown in the store. My finished garment just wouldn't have the look I was wanting. I'm so glad I found this book and I highly recommend it for anyone, not just for bridal or formal wear but for learning couture sewing techniques.
Book Index/Chapter headings:
1. Inspiration
A portfolio of gowns by Susan Khalje
- pictures of 16 gowns of varying styles. These are older styles not often worn today but you can appreciate the construction. I also found inspiration from these pictures. The detail on a hem or sleeve, the fullness of a skirt, etc.
- Guidelines for choosing your fashion fabric and underlining (which fabric works best for what). My biggest complaint about sewing books are the generalities. Susan gives specifics...silk organza as an underlining will add crisp, lightweight support compared to a cotton batiste which will add soft support and poly-cotton batiste will be too thick and heavy for most skirts...you get the idea.
- Specific summaries of the most common fashion fabrics for bridal wear and what the pros/cons are for each: satin, shantung, duppioni, brocade & damask, crepe, organza, taffeta, moire, tulle, chiffon, linen, and embellished fabrics; with specific handling instructions (cutting, stitching, pressing & hemming) for satin, tulle, and embellished fabrics.
- Overview of lace terminology
- Descriptions & pictures of each type with pros/cons: Alencon, allover, Chantilly, Guipure, ribbon, Schiffli, Soutache, Valenciennes, and Venise.
- Layout considerations: using lace motifs to enhance garment design, borders & hems
- Working with lace: dyeing, pressing, cutting & trimming, stabilizing embellishments, marking, preparing underlying fabrics, machine & hand stitching, shaping lace borders around curves, making invisible darts or seams, finishing lace seam allowances, and applying closures to lace
- Placing lace: on a sheer yoke, sleeves, borders on a bodice or hem, overhanging lace, and lace medallions
- Lace treatments: shaping with a single piece of lace, covering a bodice with 3 pieces, and using lace appliques
The Muslin
- Preparing the muslin fabric, marking, adding bones and waistline stay, different placements of boning support
- Checklist for evaluating fit
- Adjusting the muslin
- Underlining: purpose and fabric selection
- Applying the boning channels
- Hand baste the underlining
- Baste garment sections
- Stitch garment sections
- Finishing top edges
- Attaching the waistline stay
- Constructing & inserting the bodice lining
- Common bodice styles and how to stabilize necklines
- Purpose and construction of sleeve heads
- Types of Set-in sleeves: tulip, bell, trumpet, cap, leg of mutton, puff
- Off shoulder sleeves descriptions & construction: elastic-based, fabric-based, band sleeves
- Handling seams and seam allowances
- Closures (& construction tips): zippers, buttons & loops
- Layout and cutting the skirt, adding length
- Attaching the underlining
- Sewing and finishing skirt seams
- Gathering
- Stitching pleats
- Hemming: straight & full skirts, stitching options
- Attaching skirt lining: free-floating, French tacks, hemmed with outer skirt, lining overhanging skirt hem
- Skirt styles: peplums & overlays, tiered, graduated hemlines, built-in bustles, circular ruffle, bias strips on the hem, tulle skirts, gathered-up overlay, and skirts with variable fullness
- Inserting elastic, adding gussets, hanging loops, bra carriers, and sleeve stays, adding zippers
- Attaching a bodice with Basque waist to a skirt
- Bustled trains: finding pickup points, attaching buttons/loops or ribbons
- Detachable trains
The Making of Four Gowns
- 4 gowns from the first section are constructed step by step demonstrating many of the techniques above
Equipment and Supplies
- Description of all the supplies needed and how to select them
- Detailed instructions for various hand stitches and techniques
- How to pronounce the various lace and fabric names so you don't sound like an idiot
- Fabric and ribbon resources, skimpy but a few viable options
- For fashion inspiration and additional couture technical advice
Paperback book--160 pages, published in 1997, ISBN--0801987571
Currently out of print. I ordered my copy on Amazon from a UK seller. Last time I checked however, the lowest price was $96.00 USD. I got mine for less than $30 USD.
Does this book have clear illustrations or photographs?
Absolutely! At least 1 picture on every page.
Would you recommend this book as a MUST HAVE?
A must have for bridal or formal wear, and learning couture construction techniques.


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It's almost inevitable that at some point, every car owner puts the key in the ignition, only for nothing to happen. A dead ignition is almost always related to the battery. Without the battery, you can't do anything – including drive your car. The more you know about your car's battery and electrical system, the better you'll be to handle this situation when it happens. Today, the auto repair experts at Christian Brothers Automotive Amarillo will explain everything you need to know about truck and car batteries.
How Does a Car Battery Work?
The battery powers the starter, the engine, and many other auxiliary components of the electrical system, including the windshield wipers and lights. The battery is able to do this is by converting chemical energy into electrical energy and delivering that energy to the starter. Once the battery has your vehicle up and running, it stabilizes the voltage to keep your engine powered.
What is a Car Battery's Lifespan?
The lifespan of a car battery varies based on driving habits and exposure to extreme elements, but the average battery will last 3 to 5 years. You may go the entire life of your battery without ever experiencing a problem, but this is rarely the case. Abnormal weather conditions, such as extreme heat or extreme cold, may cause minor issues and require a jump from a fellow West Texas driver.
When it is time to purchase a new battery, make sure to get advice from the experts at your local Christian Brothers Automotive in Amarillo, Texas. Let our professionals know
your driving habits and they'll recommend the battery that's best for your car or truck.
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There are a few indicators that warn when your battery is on its way out. The main signs are:
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- Check engine light
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- Swelling/bloating battery case
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The Abbot John E. Neitzel Society is a group of friends of the Abbey who have designated in their wills that they will remember the Abbey. Yearly, they meet on the Anniversary of our First Abbot's death for Vespers and a special meal with the Norbertine community.
Additional information concerning remembering the Norbertine Fathers, Inc. in your will may be obtained from Fr. John Joseph Novielli, Director of Development.


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A study conducted by the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) and the East African Business Council (EABC) to establish employers' perceptions of graduates shows that more than 50 per cent of university graduates are half-baked as they lack basic workplace proficiencies.
This means university students are graduating without attaining basic and technical skills required in the job market, denying the five East African Community (EAC) economies the quality human capital that they need to grow.
"Universities in the East African region are producing a theoretical, unskilled and unpractical labour force," Mayunga Nkunya, executive secretary of IUCEA, told an EAC higher education quality assurance forum in Arusha last week.
"Employers told us that graduates lack self-confidence at work, they can't translate the knowledge they got in universities into work and they normally wait to be told what to do."
Uganda is the worst
Uganda is the worst among the peers, with only 37 per cent of its graduates fit for the job market, whereas Tanzania has only 39 per cent of its degree holders rated as competent.
Comparatively, 45 per cent and 48 per cent of graduates in Burundi and Rwanda, respectively, are competent for the job market. Kenya has the best rated graduates, with 49 per cent found up to the task.
The findings on the state of higher education in the EAC are a signal that lack of competence in primary and secondary schools is permeating universities, hurting the credibility of students and consequently diluting the quality of the region's human capital base.
The latest studies by education think-tanks Uwezo and Twaweza East Africa show that children in primary schools are not learning, the worst hit being those in rural schools — at least seven out of 10 Standard Three pupils cannot read a Standard Two-level story.


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New EP "Three of Four" Out Now!
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Lady Radio – Out Now!
I'm very pleased to announce that my latest single Lady Radio is out now. The cover art is an original piece by the amazing Ian Kiddley.
Currently available as a download from CDBaby.com but in the next few days it will be on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Spotify etc etc
This is the opening track from my forthcoming EP 'Three of Four' which is released on Monday 11th August.
You can download it from this lovely link down here…
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Spring Update
New EP Three of Four is nearly done, looking forward to sharing it with you very soon.
There are a few other things going on to round here. I've been very lucky to work with artist IanK on some sleeve art for a couple of tracks "Sometimer" and "Lady Radio" I'll post them up for you to look at.
The first band I ever played with are reforming for one night only! fijdit will be playing the Craufurd Arms on Saturday 10th of May for their 7 year birthday gig.
I've also been continuing to work with Daniela Bove on some of her new material, and we've even started rehearsing tracks with a band, I'll let you know what's going on, we'll hopefully be playing a few gigs in the summer.
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Welcome to February, I've got a couple of gigs this month:
Mon 10th – The Oak House, Ayelsbury
Fri 28th – The Slug And Lettuce, Milton Keynes
The new EP is coming along nicely, I've finished writing and arranging "Don't" and "Walls Fall Down" so I just need to arrange a recording session. Then it's just working out the timing of the vocals on "9 Wave" and we're done!
I'm also working on some beats and atmospherics for another Daniela Bove tune.
I've also been working on some alternative versions of some of my songs, including a couple of old Exit Motel tunes, once I'm happy with them I'll post them here.
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Hamlet, The Motion Picture, currently in production. The rumour mill is rife with casting ideas - Fassbender? Pitt? Sheen?- and this could be the biggest talent search since Selnick searched for Scarlett.
Can you see how it works?
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Recent releases:
- Secret Life of Pets 2, The
- Rocketman
- Aladdin (IMAX in some cinemas)
- Breakthrough
- John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
- Amazing Grace
- Hustle, The
- Where Hands Touch
- Curse of La Llorona, The
- Long Shot
- Vanishing, The
- Spy Cat
- Bel Canto
- Eighth Grade
- Pond Life
- Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
- Greta
- Dragged Across Concrete
- Red Joan
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (reissue)
Mercy, The
Stars: Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Mark Gatiss, Ken Stott, Anna Madely, Finn Elliot
Director: James Marsh
The mystery of would-be voyager-around-the-world Donald Crowhurst grabbed headlines across the globe, but this re-telling of one man's unequal battle against himself and the elements is, although reasonably well paced, also desiccated and bloodless, especially by comparison with Robert Redford's All is Lost. It's a fascinating true story in many ways, that, unfortunately, doesn't make for gripping drama.
Firth and Weisz do decent jobs as Crowhurst and his wife, while Thewlis repeats his slow-drawling, scene-grabbing wheeler-dealer from the last series of TV's Fargo.
Having a trimaran built to his own specifications, Crowhurst suffers the frustration of repeated delays in its construction to his demands, making the voyage more hazardous thanks to the time of year. Spare parts were also accidentally left ashore.
On his much-trumpeted departure, Crowhurst finds himself hailed a hero but, ill-prepared and ill-equipped, he suffers a rough Atlantic crossing, and with little experience of open water sailing, is soon miles of course. In all kinds of difficulties, he is forced to beach in Argentina.
Returning to the boat, Crowhurst heads back across the Atlantic, intending to finish last to avoid having his logbooks examined (a rather forlorn hope you might think, but one which reflects his deteriorating state of mind). Alas, other competitors, falling by the wayside, soon put his new plans in jeopardy...
The film conveys only a modicum of the despair involved, although Firth bears a passing resemblance to the real thing and should be praised for tackling a role outside his usual parameters. The 'Mercy' incidentally, is not the name of the boat, but is explained in the final scenes of this disappointing film.
David Quinlan
UK 2017. UK Distributor: StudioCanal. Colour (unspecified).
101 minutes. Widescreen. UK certificate: 12A.
Guidance ratings (out of 3): Sex/nudity 0, Violence/Horror 0, Drugs 0, Swearing 1.
Review date: 05 Feb 2018


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The Public outreach summary is available!
After almost a year of conducting different public outreach activities, we have completed our initial public comment period. In order to easily and succinctly share what we found, we have created a Public Outreach Summary, which is now available online and can be found by clicking the "Documents + Resources" button to the right. The summary contains the data that was collected from visitors and stakeholders both in person and online, as well as a discussion of major themes that emerged during the outreach process. We would like to thank those of you who have participated in our outreach activities thus far. While this initial comment opportunity is over, there willbe other chances to provide input in the future.
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A place to find out more and share what you know about this awesome rare poultry breed! **NOTE: Those who wish to register as a new member on the forum are asked to email email@example.com and an Administrator will gladly help you join the forum!
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Last week I picked up some chicks from a fellow about 3 hours drive from me. He also sold me three birds he had that were about 2 months old. They have interesting features. The first pullet is beautiful, and very nicely colored. If i'd hatched her out the devil would have frostbite before I ever sold her, but he let me take her home. We have named her Caramel:
This one's a bit blurry:
Also, I got this cockerel that we have named Pepper. He has next to no brown in him, and I may decide to save him for my Zilarra project. Nice legs and beak, no sprigs.
In my last hatch I had a couple of pullets, but they all seemed pretty light. This little girl is totally going to be put with the Zilarra birds and we shall see what comes of her. I believe her mom was my deer colored hen.
This little girl has some promise if she can darken up a bit. Out of my Millie pullet I believe.
Any and all comments welcome! What do you guys think of the lighter ones? I want to breed them perhaps to my lightest cockerel and try to tone down the color to white. My wife is going to kill me for getting chicken poop on her car .
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Love the first pullet, she has potential for sure. If you are starting a Zillaria project the cockerel is a good start. The second hen looks like she is going to be a "blondie", your millie pullet has a lot of white on her unless she darkens up I would just keep her as a layer, but that's just me.
Nice looking birds though
As for your wife's car, I see some snow in the background, just cover it with that
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I tend to agree FRF. I won't be needing to get any layers for next year as I will be keeping all my non-breeding EO pullets. I'll also just be keeping my Black Penedesencas for eggs and breeding as well. Pretty much everything else has to go if I'm going to do this properly. I'm hoping to get a couple of nice dark pullets and roos from your eggs to put with my best few birds and darken up my line a lot.
Good plan
I agree, newbie that I am, great plan. I adore that first pullet. Where did the guy get his stock?
Same source as mine. They all come from Claire.
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Same source as mine. They all come from Claire.
Awesome. They are all adorable.
Sounds like a good plan to me too. I'm coming face to face with the decision about what to keep here as well. I only have so much room and part of the reason I love the EOs is that they're great layers AND good meat birds. Simply not going to be able to do everything I'd really like to but the more I think about it, the more I realize that there is only room for one breed that really needs work here and becoming truly self-sustaining means that every bird needs to have a job...
Caramel is beautiful.. I love the chicken poop on the car!