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A Few Aztec Riddles
Watching the Hobbit in theatres last weekend got me thinking about riddles. Not only are they amusing, but the figurative language and ideas contained within them can point to interesting tidbits of culture. I've pulled a few of my favorites from the Florentine Codex and included them below, in slightly more informal language. After each riddle and its answer I've added some of my own notes and interpretations of the concepts they nod to (the commentary is my own work, not that of Anderson and Dibble).
Q: What's a small blue gourd bowl filled with popcorn?
A: It's the sky.
Mesoamerican cosmology divides the universe into sky and heavens (topan) above, the earth's surface like a pancake or tortilla in the middle (tlalticpac), and the underworld (mictlan) below. Though all three have their own distinct and separate characteristics, they interpenetrate to a certain degree, and this riddle hints at that in a playful manner. The gourd itself is a product of the earth and its underworld powers, doubly so as it's a water-filled plant (and is often likened to the human head), as is popcorn. In fact, first eating corn is the moment where an infant becomes bound to the earth deities as it takes of their bounty and starts to accumulate cold, heavy "earthy-ness" within its being. It's also the start of a debt to the earth and vegetation gods — as They feed the child, one day that child will die and return to the earth to feed Them. I covered some aspects of this idea in my Human Corn post, if you're curious to read more.
Q: What's the little water jar that's both carried on the head and also knows the land of the dead?
A: The pitcher for drawing water.
The land of the dead is traditionally conceived of as a place dominated by the elements of earth and water, filled with cool, oozy dampness. Rivers, wells, springs, and caves were places where the underworld power was considered to leak through to the mortal realm. Not only did this power seep through to us, but we could sometimes cross through them to reach the underworld as well (the legendary Cincalco cave being one of the most famous of these doors). Thus, thrusting the jar down into a watering hole or a spring, breaking through the fragile watery membrane, was sending it into Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue's world in a way.
Q: What lies on the ground but points its finger to the sky?
A: The agave plant.
The agave plant, called metl in Nahuatl and commonly referred to as a maguey in the old Spanish sources, is a plant loaded with interesting cultural associations. Its heart and sap is tapped to produce a variety of traditional and modern liquors like pulque, octli, and tequila, linking it to the earth-linked liquor gods like Nappatecuhtli, Mayahuel, and even Xipe Totec and Quetzalcoatl in their pulque god aspects. Additionally, each thick, meaty leaf is tipped with a long black spine that's much like a natural awl. This spine was one of the piercing devices used by priests and the general public alike to perform autosacrifice and offer blood to the gods. Lastly, the beautiful greenish-blue color of the leaves of some species (like the blue agave), is the special color traditionally associated with beautiful, divine things. Take a look at a photo of the respendent quetzal's tailfeathers — they're just about the same color as the agave.
Q: What's the small mirror in a house made of fir branches?
A: Our eye.
The Aztecs strongly associated mirrors with sight and understanding. Several gods, most notably Tezcatlipoca (the "Smoking Mirror"), possessed special mirrors that would allow them to see and know anything in the world by peering into them. Some of the records we have from before and during the Conquest record that some of the statues of the gods had eyes made of pyrite or obsidian mirrors, causing a worshipper standing before them to see themselves reflected in the god's gaze. In the present day, some of the tigre (jaguar) boxers in Zitlala and Acatlan wear masks with mirrored eyes, discussed in this post and video. One last point on mirrors — in many of the huehuetlatolli (ancient word speeches), the speaker implores the gods to set their "light and mirror" before someone to guide them, symbolizing counsel, wisdom, and good example. The comparison of eyelashes to fir branches is rather interesting, as it reminds me of the common practice in many festivals of decorating altars with fresh-cut fir branches. The two elements combine to suggest a tiny shrine of enlightenment, the magic mirror nestled in its fragrant altar like a holy icon.
Q: What's the scarlet macaw in the lead, but the raven following after?
A: The wildfire.
I included this one simply because I thought it was exceptionally creative and clever. I'm pretty sure it would stump even a master riddler like Gollum!
Sahagún, Bernardino , Arthur J. O. Anderson, and Charles E. Dibble. General History of the Things of New Spain: Florentine Codex. Santa Fe, N.M: School of American Research, 1950-1982, Book VI, pp.236-239.
Joe Laycock & Santa Muerte
I've been keeping an eye on the alleged human sacrifices in honor of Santa Muerte (Saint Death) in Nacozari, Mexico, since the news first broke a bit over a week ago. Since the initial story hit, it's been a rather vexing (if not surprising) slog through the misinformation and tedious sensationalism, with the usual suspects coming out of the woodwork to push a new version of the tired "Satanic Panic" trope. I'm pleased to inform however, that a friend of mine, Joseph Laycock, just posted a story regarding the killings on the Religion Dispatches. With his usual wit, Dr. Laycock deconstructs that bit of irritating nonsense, and provides a nice bit of work tracking how this meme is rapidly developing. I highly recommend popping by and giving it a read.
If you're wondering why I'm taking a moment to post news relating to human sacrifices offered to a Catholic saint, you might want to swing by Dr. Laycock's other article on Santa Muerte. Among other interesting data of note, he comments on the theory that Santa Muerte is a syncreticism of Catholicism with Mictlancihuatl (aka Mictecacihuatl), the pre-Columbian consort of Mictlantecuhtli and Queen of the Dead. (Her names translate literally as "Lady of the Land of the Dead" and "Lady of the Deadlands People," respectively.) The first time I came across information relating to Santa Muerte, I had the exact same thought come to mind. Both entities appear as skeletal feminine figures draped in sacred garb. While Santa Muerte's dress most obviously echoes a combination of Saint Mary (and by extension, the Virgin of Guadalupe, who is herself a syncretism of Tonantzin) and popular depictions of the Grim Reaper, her functions remind me far more of Mictlancihuatl. Both grim ladies have power over material blessings and fortunes, as well as life and death. This combination of dominion over material wealth and death is a signature of the Aztec earth/death deities (the powers of the earth and the force of death are inseparable in this cosmovision, when one gets to the root of it) such as Mictlancihuatl, Tonantzin, Cihuacoatl, and Tlaloc, among many, many others. The offering of blood and human life to Santa Muerte seems to hint that at least some others see this connection between the new saint and the ancient goddess, the tragic manifestation of this understanding in the case of the Nacozari murders aside.
With that said, I do encourage you to check out Dr. Laycock's informative articles on Santa Muerte HERE and HERE, and give the ill-informed and sensationalistic tripe from non-experts floating around on the web a miss. Stay tuned for an upcoming post to stay with the subject of death while linking back to my prior post on the two major anthologies of Aztec poetry.
Censers and Incense of Mexico and Central America
While doing some research on different types of censers (incense burners) used in Mesoamerica, I came across a useful article on the subject by Walter Hough, entitled (creatively) "Censers and Incense of Mexico and Central America." The article dates from 1912 and doesn't have the benefit of recent excavations at the Huey Teocalli in Mexico City, but I still found it valuable as a solid overview of the major types of incense burners (popochcomitl in Nahuatl) used in precolumbian Mexico and neighboring regions. It's a well-organized and reasonably-concise article, and contains a good number of photographs of examples for each of the major shapes and style variations by broad ethnic groupings. To read "Censers and Incense of Mexico and Central America" by Walter Hough via GoogleBooks, please click HERE. A full-text PDF of the article can also be downloaded, as the article is in the public domain. (A warning note — unsurprisingly, given its age, Hough's article is marred by some obnoxious ethnocentric language common to writing from the period. Fortunately, it's less pervasive than what I've seen from some of his contemporaries, so hopefully you can look past it to benefit from the real meat of the essay.)
I'd like to comment briefly on some of the most interesting parts of the article. I'll start with some thoughts about the large, stationary "hourglass" type censer he mentions, which were permanent installations at the temples (depicted on page 9 of the PDF, page 112 in the original numbering). Called tlexictli, or "fire navels," they instantly bring to mind Xiuhtecuhtli (also called Huehueteotl), the ancient Lord of Fire, who is said to dwell in the "navel" of the universe, as recorded throughout the Florentine Codex by Sahagun. Also according to Sahagun, these large braziers provided not only continual light, warmth, and a place to burn copal, but were used in the disposal of some offerings and ritual implements. The objects to be cremated were burned in a tlexictli, and then the ashes were buried at certain holy sites on the edge of bodies of water (Hough, PDF p.11). It's a fascinating variation on the theme of water meets fire that pervades traditional Aztec thought, here manifesting in a team effort of the two opposing forces in destroying sanctified objects that are due to leave the physical world for the spiritual realm.
Staying on the subject of the tlexictli a moment longer, I'd like to call your attention to the photo on page 44 of the PDF, which shows one of the "fire navel" braziers. Around the narrow waist of the censer is a knotted bow. These bows frequently show up in Aztec art, either tied around objects that are being offered or tied around people, animals, or gods. Quetzalcoatl is often shown in the codices with these bows tied around his knees and elbows, such as in plate 56 of the Codex Borgia. Mictlantecuhtli is wearing the pleated paper bows around his joints as well. To my knowledge, we don't yet fully understand the complex meaning behind these bows, but they're definitely associated with priestly activity and sacrifice. In that light, it seems appropriate to see these bows appear on the tlexictli.
Moving on to more familiar territory, Hough's paper covers the ladle-type censer commonly depicted in the hands of priests offering incense in the codices, as discussed in my earlier post on the subject of daily copal offerings by the clergy. In his scheme of classification, it is labeled as a type of "gesture"popochcomitl, so called because it's intended to be held in the hand and used in various motions during ceremony to direct the sweet smoke towards its intended recipient(s). According to the author, this ladle-like shape is a signature of gesture censers among the Nahua peoples, and isn't as prevalent among groups to the north and south of Central Mexico. This seems to be reflected in the surviving codices, as the majority of the examples I can recall offhand are that shape. I've seen a few examples of a bowl-shaped vessel with copal in it as well in the ancient books, which may match the small bowl-type censers he notes as being universal across Mesoamerica.
Gesture censers in varying shapes were used outside of temple activities, as Sahagun notes that the duty to offer copal was shared by everyone in the Aztec empire, which Hough comments on in the household context a bit. Sahagun also recorded that copal was offered before performances of song and dance at the houses of the nobles, which presumably involved small censers that could be manipulated with a hand in at least some cases. I mention that possibility because it's a custom still widely in use today, as seen among the danza Azteca groups around the world, and one that I can show you as I wrap up today's post.
The video below is a recording of a dance for Tonatiuh, the Sun, and the dancers have several goblet-shaped censers that they use to offer copal smoke to the four directions. Once the offering is finished, they place the censers back among the other objects of the dance altar spread out on the ground, letting the copal continue to burn and smoke as they dance. Thanks go to Omeyocanze for posting this lovely video.
Courtesy link to Omeyocanze's page on YouTube for this danza video.
*Apologies for not having the citations for Sahagun's Florentine Codex in just yet, but it's quite late and I must call it a night before getting up for work later. I'll add them in when I get the chance soon.
Breathing Room For Wirikuta
I've got an update on the threat to Wirikuta, a sacred site of the Wixarika (Huichol) people I blogged about the other day, and the news is good!
The judiciary grants the Wixarika people a suspension to detain mineral exploitation by the La Luz project in the Catorce municipality of San Luis Potosí
Feb. 26, 2012
The federal courts have definitively granted the suspension of the violations claimed by the Wixarika (Huichol) People in order that no exploitation permit be granted for the La Luz mining project, in the Municipality of Catorce in San Luis Potosí, so long as the core issue remains unresolved… Click HERE to continue the article on the Wirikuta Defense Front site.
This is an important step in resolving this problem for good, but the fight's not over yet. The pressure to do the right thing here needs to stay on First Majestic and the Canadian and Mexican governments, whether it's in the courts, on the streets in peaceful protest, online, or in your prayers. Keep it up!
Today I came across some interesting news articles documenting the ongoing struggle of the Huichole (Wixáritari) people to protect one of their holiest sites in the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The site in question is a beautiful mountain region named Wirikuta in the Huichol tongue, which Spanish-speakers call Cerro del Quemado. In English, the name is roughly translated as "Burned Mountain," a fitting name for the place where the sun ascended from the Earth's surface to the skies in traditional belief.
Despite being considered an internationally-recognized protected site by UNESCO and the Mexican government, Wirikuta is currently under threat from foreign mining interests. In 2009, the Canadian mining company, First Majestic Silver Corp., bought mineral rights to the area, and plans extensive extraction of silver, a process which will consume a significant portion of the area's limited water supply, as well as expose the countryside to dangerous chemicals used in silver mining, such as cyanide, which have a deadly tendency to seep into the groundwater and render it undrinkable. This threat to the mountain and the fragile aquifer rooted at it is all the more horrifying when one recalls that mountains were and still are considered to be hearts of earth and water, or "houses of mist" all across Mesoamerica, a belief uniting the imperial Mexica-Tenochca with their present-day Huichol cousins. Viewed through this lens, it's not at all surprising that a threat to Wirikuta is a threat to the aquifer and all life in its nourishing influence.
In addition to the physical destruction that mining unavoidably brings, there will be spiritual destruction. Wirikuta is home to many sacred plants, such as peyote, animals, and divine beings, particularly deities associated with rain. Destroying the mountain will destroy these creatures and desecrate the site, which will sever the Huichol from their spiritual root. Drawing a Judeo-Christian-Islamic parallel, Dawn Paley likened digging up Wirikuta to "bulldozing Eden for a golf course" in her detailed coverage of this issue in This Magazine. Furthermore, this mountain is not only a place to gather vital religious supplies, but it is also a natural temple, a place to conduct ceremony. Cerro del Quemado, the sacred center of Wirikuta, is the destination of a traditional 800 kilometer yearly pilgrimage conducted by the Huichol people to renew bonds of community and deity.
This February, the journey had an additional goal of seeking guidance in protecting the holy ground from destruction, and by extension, themselves — the Huichol view themselves as inseparable from the sacred site so intimately intertwined with their culture and ancestry, and have stated they view First Majestic's plans to dig as a "war of extermination" against them. The Esperanza Project has a beautiful account of the ceremony held on February 6-7th, 2012, complete with numerous photographs and interviews with several Huichol community leaders and observers about the meeting and the ideas and hope flowing from it. They were kind enough to allow journalists to record some footage of song and ceremony from this holy gathering, which you may watch below.
Courtesy link to Mysticalfrequency's original YouTube posting
To view video statements by the Huichol against this impending desecration and in support of their traditional spirituality and lifeways, please click HERE. The linked site, www.nierika.info, also contains many interesting articles on this matter if you would like to read more, both in English and in Spanish.
Below, for those who wish to learn more, I've included a short video discussing this crisis and calling for action. I can't seem to get it to embed properly, so please click the link below to check it out.
Click to watch on Venado Mestizo's Vimeo page
You may be wondering where you can go to read and watch more, and learn how you can get involved in putting pressure on First Majestic to abort their plans for this site. I would like to highlight the Wirikuta Defense Front's excellent site (click for English or Spanish). They are an action group composed of people from the Huichol community, as well as local and international allies, and are seeking volunteers to help.
As The Dust Settles
It's taken a few days, but I've finally got the site fully restored and running again, including cleaning up all the links. Fun fact — importing an old WordPress blog onto a new domain, still using their software, doesn't auto-update links to pages and posts, internal or external. When you realize that is when you also realize just how many links you've built up over the course of two years. Good times. On that note, if you spot any broken links while navigating the site, please shoot me a comment or email (cehualli <AT> hotmail <DOT> com), it'll help me fix anything still wrong faster.
Matters of housekeeping aside, I'd also like to point out that I've opened the Post-Colonial Modern History page in the History section with its first entry, a collection of John P. Schmal's papers and research on the numerous indigenous nations within Mexico in the modern era, hosted on Somos Primos. It's valuable beyond its core informative value as it also serves to highlight the very important fact that, yes, the Aztecs (Mexica), the Maya, the Huaxtecs, and all the other indigenous peoples one frequently reads about in the past are not gone, they are still here, even if the Conquest and incorporation into a modern, European-style Republic has left its mark on their lifeways. This might seem like an odd thing to make a big deal about, but it's a serious issue when discussing First Nations people, as they're so often stereotyped as archaic, vanishing, or extinct, creatures of the past, and these aren't harmless cliches. They hurt people, real, living people. If you'd like to get a bit of an intro on the issue of damaging stereotyping, check out Adrienne K.'s recent posts on her blog, Native Appropriations, HERE and HERE. If you'd like to dig deeper and read a concise paper on the results of a 2008 Stanford University study by Dr. Stephanie Fryburg, please go HERE for a downloadable PDF.
Tigre Boxing In Acatlan: Jaguar & Tlaloc Masks
Up today is another video about the Mexican Tigre combat phenomenon I discussed a few weeks ago. This one shows a style of fighting practiced in Acatlan. Instead of rope whip-clubs as in Zitlala, these competitors duel with their fists.
Courtesy link to ArchaeologyTV's page on YouTube for this Tigre combat video.
A particularly interesting feature of this video is the variety of masks. Not only do you see the jaguar-style masks, but you'll also see masks with goggle eyes. Goggle eyes are, of course, one of the signature visual characteristics of Tlaloc, the very Teotl this pre-Columbian tradition was originally dedicated to. (And still is in many places, beneath the surface layer of Christian symbols.) If you look closely, you might notice that some of the goggle eyes are mirrored. The researchers behind ArchaeologyTV interviewed one of the combatants, who said that the significance of the mirrors is that you see your own face in the eyes of your opponent, linking the two fighters as they duel.
This idea of a solemn connection between two parties in sacrificial bloodshed was of major importance in many of the pre-Conquest religious practices of the Aztecs. It can be seen most clearly in the gladiatorial sacrifice for Xipe Totec during Tlacaxipehualiztli. During this festival, the victorious warrior would refer to the man he captured in battle as his beloved son, and the captive would refer to the victor as his beloved father. The victim would be leashed to a round stone that formed something of an arena, and given a maquahuitl that had the blades replaced with feathers, while his four opponents were fully-armed. As the captor watched the courageous victim fight to the death in a battle he couldn't win, he knew that next time, he might be the one giving his life on the stone to sustain the cosmos.


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October 15, 2012 by startupengineering .
Throw out your science fiction and start reading mysteries. A good science fiction novel is the very model of the failed startup, but a good mystery shows how startups succeed.
Why? Science fiction moves from vision (space colonies, genetically engineered children…) to a world incorporating the vision (maybe clones living on Mars) to a problem endemic to the setting (maybe one clone comes out different…). Science fiction writers succeed by constructing a plausible world around their innovations. The more detail they make up and fit together, the more real it looks. Writers like Tolkien and Herbert spent decades constructing and fitting together imaginary details, and as a result, you read their books and feel like you could step right into Middle Earth or Dune.
The same thing happens in real life. An entrepreneur can fit together lots of painstaking details in the form of a scenario ("Here's how marketing managers will use my software to analyze the success of their campaigns….") Even more wastefully, he can fit together details in the form of features on an actual product. The details make the vision more plausible, even compelling, to the founder, and to potential customers. But this is the conjunction fallacy. As Kahneman and Tversky famously demonstrated with the Linda experiment, the more details you add, the less likely it is that a story is true. Even if you started out with a critical eye toward your product idea, the process of answering objections and filling in details leads you toward belief, at the same time leading your idea away from the truth. So stay away from science fiction.
Mysteries, however, are perfect. They move from "problem" (the old lady was stabbed! Who did it?) to "motive" (turns out the housekeeper was in love with the grandson and the old lady was having none of it) to means (the housekeeper noticed that the sneering young handyman was always losing track of his screwdrivers…) The "means" in a startup is the product. In a mystery, it's usually the murder weapon.
Mysteries start with obscured means. Sometimes, they're totally invisible ("I can't believe it, there's not a mark on her!). More often, the means are hiding in plain sight ("She was clearly done in by a screwdriver. Hmm, perhaps that sneering handyman? "). But a well-written mystery almost never tracks directly back from the means to the criminal (his fingerprints are all over it! Book him!) Instead, the absolute rightness of the means doesn't become clear until the final chapter, where motives and circumstances have been laid bare, and the murder weapon could not have been anything else but the handyman's lost screwdriver. At that point, it's not just a screwdriver, it's an object that anchors a rich set of meanings. The screwdriver is proof, for example, that the crime was premeditated, and that the housekeeper was ruthless enough to frame the handyman.
Just so in a startup. Even if you come to the game with a product vision, gleaming and compelling as a bloody screwdriver, set it aside. Instead, explore your customer's hidden motives and exact circumstances. If you do that, the shape of their need will become clearer and clearer, like the shape of a missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle. Until finally, customer discovery becomes a template for your product.


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text: Dr. Dave Samuel - August 31, 2012 'The Hunger Games' Spurs Interest in Archery Over the years, I've written several columns about girls and the shooting sports. I wrote those because people need to understand that guns and bows are not weapons of crime for kids, when they are trained to use them in a controlled environment. Shooting sports are fun for kids and always have been.I've cited scientific studies that show that girls who participate in the shooting sports (archery, trap, and skeet) get better grades in school, have higher attendance records, and develop self-esteem.Look at the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP). Started in Kentucky in 2002, there have now been nine million participants in 9,000 schools worldwide. And the spinoffs have been fantastic; indoor and outdoor ranges constructed, hundreds of afterschool archery clubs formed, thousands of kids buying new bows, etc. Demand for NASP has grown exponentially as more and more kids, especially girls, are developing an interest in archery. This boom in archery has seen a major jump in interest, and bow sales this past April. Why?As a kid, I watched Howard Hill and Robin Hood doing their thing on the movie screen. All my buddies left the Robin Hood movie and went home to build their own crude bows. Of course, those self-made bows broke often enough that we realized real bows were needed. I still have vivid memories of the day my dad brought home Bear Grizzly bows for my twin brother and me. We harassed the neighborhood rabbits and squirrels for a few years, and shot in the local archery club's winter league. Then, at age 12, we started hunting deer with those bows. No question, shooting bows was an adventure, and it was fun. For many of us, the key boost to our interest in shooting bows was the movies. In recent months there has been a huge increase in the sale of bows to children and women. Apparently a blockbuster movie, The Hunger Games, has been the spark. We've seen this spark before. There was a growth in the interest in archery with the bow-carrying character Legolas in Lord of the Rings. Of course, there were archers in Clash of the Titans and The Lightning Thief, but the heroine of The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, is the recent trigger for the interest in archery.In the case of The Hunger Games, the boost to the public's interest in archery has been huge. But prior to that movie, USA Archery tournaments saw a big increase in youth divisions, as have competitions held by the National Field Archery Association. In the past year, the Facebook pages for these two organizations have gotten enormous traffic. Kids want to shoot competitive archery.When one girl picks up a bow, friends join in. A recently completed study done by Responsive Management showed that the more familiar youth were with individuals their own age that shoot targets and hunt, the more likely they were to participate in these activities. Also, they were "…more likely to believe that hunters and shooters possess desirable qualities like intelligence, care for the environment, and care for other people. At the same time, youths who are not around hunting and shooting (particularly because they lack close friends or relatives who hunt or shoot) tend to fill in the gaps in their knowledge with anecdotal impressions or — worse — misinformation, myth, and misperception..."Why are youths so intrigued by The Hunger Games heroine using her bow to get food and killing others to survive? They definitely are not turning to archery to develop skills to kill people. That is obviously not what is happening here. But young people today face challenges, challenges that my generation did not have to face. My young world was very simple. Work hard, do your chores around the house (farm), do your homework, listen to the radio an hour each night, and go to bed. Things are so different for kids in our fast-paced world. But in archery, there are similarities not separated by generation gaps. Kids don't want to be "cookie punched." They want to be different, feel important, and not be just another unknown in a huge crowd. Not all kids can be individualistic by playing football or basketball. Some don't weigh enough, some are too short, and some can't run fast. But they all can shoot bows, and girls are especially good at it. Archery is great fun for kids. Always has been, and a blockbuster movie is apparently a big part of this recent boom. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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Most kerbside collections of waste materials in New Zealand cater for household waste. Although many businesses produce the same type of recyclables (paper and cardboard, steel and aluminium, glass and plastics), they are often produced in larger quantities that can not be handled by kerbside collections.
Businesses may rent skips for waste disposal, and pay high prices for the disposal of these materials to landfill. In many instances, the business has paid to bring the product on site, and they pay again to store and remove it.
Commercial recycling offers many opportunities for businesses to rethink waste management. Rather than putting mixed materials into one skip, businesses can separate at source to recover resources for resale, re-use, recycling or composting. The use of council by-laws, such as in the Timaru District may even prohibit recyclable or organic waste from going to landfill.
Business often generate large volumes of materials that cannot be recycled via kerbside collections, - for example, cardboard, shrinkwrap and other clean flexible plastics, scrap metal and polystyrene as well as large volumes of materials from offices and cafeterias, able to be processed at a Materials Recovery Facility that is designed for household-type recyclables, such as paper, cardboard and plastic containers.
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As each local council will have different local waste collectors, the best way of finding commercial recyclers is by contacting your local government, or by checking out the Recycling Operators of New Zealand. Individual councils may offer website links or directories such as this linked page for Timaru District. For your council, if they are participants in the One Planet website, see our Councils link at the top of the page to locate their pages.


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PEORIA, Ariz. — Ichiro Suzuki went 0 for 4 the day Felix Hernandez made his debut for the Seattle Mariners in 2005. But that is not how Hernandez remembers it. To him, Suzuki might as well have batted 1.000.
"Every time he came up to the plate was a hit," Hernandez said by his locker on Tuesday at the Peoria Sports Complex. "It was exciting. He could do a lot of things on the field."
Suzuki, 44, will soon return officially to the Mariners' clubhouse, where he already has a locker stall, a stack of mail and his old No. 51 jersey waiting for him. On Wednesday, the Mariners announced a one-year contract with Suzuki, a former American League most valuable player.
About 10 miles down Bell Road, at the Texas Rangers' complex in Surprise, another former superstar has also found a home. Tim Lincecum, a two-time Cy Young Award winner for the San Francisco Giants, worked out with the Rangers on Tuesday after agreeing to a contract.
The one-year, $1 million deal became official Wednesday after the Rangers got the results of a physical exam. They plan to use Lincecum, 33, as a reliever, but they do not know exactly what they have.
"There's two kinds of realities here," Texas General Manager Jon Daniels said. "One is that you're talking about one of the best pitchers of this generation, who has been unique from day one in how he's built, how he does it, his arsenal and his body. And so, from that standpoint, we used to say this about Josh Hamilton: Nothing would surprise me. If he's healthy, and it appears that he is, then nothing would surprise me.
"The flip side is he's had some physical ailments and didn't pitch last year and obviously he hasn't performed at that level in quite a while. I think we go ahead and let him get ready for the season and see where it winds up."
In their primes, Suzuki and Lincecum were undersized marvels: Both 5 feet 11 inches and less than 180 pounds, their bodies seemingly made of elastic. Suzuki slashed and dashed in one motion as he bolted from the batter's box. Lincecum twisted and whirled and launched his body at hitters, an impossibly long stride helping generate extraordinary power.
Suzuki's M.V.P. rookie season in 2001 coincided with the last playoff appearance by the Mariners, whose postseason drought is now the longest of any team in baseball, the N.F.L., the N.B.A. or the N.H.L.
Seattle traded Suzuki to the Yankees in 2012, and in the last five seasons he has hit just .263. This version of Suzuki may not help much, but the nostalgia is palpable.
"Everywhere you go, people love him," second baseman Robinson Cano said, who played with Suzuki on the Yankees. "He's the man here. The things that he did here, it was something I don't think anybody's ever done."
The résumé is remarkable, indeed: In each season from 2001 through 2010, Suzuki collected at least 200 hits while batting above .300, winning a Gold Glove and being named an All-Star. He has 3,080 hits in the majors and 1,278 in Japan.
"Last year, in the second half, he hit pretty good," Hernandez said, referring to Suzuki's .299 average for Miami after the All-Star break. "I tell you, man, he's not going to come over here and not produce. He's going to hit."
The Mariners have a spot for Suzuki because Ben Gamel, another left-handed-hitting outfielder, may miss six weeks with a strained oblique muscle. Another starter, first baseman Ryon Healy, had hand surgery last month, and Hernandez is just now throwing again after being struck on the pitching arm by a line drive on Feb. 26.
It is an ominous start for the Mariners, who used a franchise-record 61 players last season and slumped to 78-84 amid a barrage of injuries. The Rangers had the same record, and signing Lincecum fits with an off-season pitching strategy that was both modest and aggressive.
The Rangers traded for starter Matt Moore, a former All-Star who struggled for the Giants last season. They signed reliever Mike Minor and will use him as a starter, a role he last filled for Atlanta in 2014. They signed the veteran starters Doug Fister and Bartolo Colon, plucked reliever Chris Martin from Japan and plan to give reliever Matt Bush a chance to start in a rotation that could, at times, include more than five pitchers.
"We knew we had to add from the outside, and looking at it from a budget standpoint, we tried to spread our dollars out a little bit," Daniels said. "We needed bang for our buck. We needed guys who have the opportunity to be better than their acquisition cost might suggest."
That also includes Lincecum. Hip problems dulled his effectiveness for the Giants, and a 2016 cameo for the Los Angeles Angels produced a 9.16 E.R.A. in nine starts.
But Lincecum, who attended the funeral of his older brother, Sean, last weekend, rediscovered his fastball this winter through training at the Driveline pitching facility near his Seattle home, bumping his velocity from 86 miles an hour to the 90-93 range.
Lincecum thrived as a reliever in the 2012 World Series against Detroit, but his greatest moment came two years before — in Arlington, Tex. In Game 5 of the 2010 World Series, Lincecum throttled the Rangers for eight innings to win the clincher.
"When I spoke to him on the phone before he signed, he apologized for it," Daniels said. "It wasn't a very sincere apology."


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FEMA Damage Assessment Manual
The FEMA Damage Assessment Operations Manual is part of a greater effort to provide a user-friendly, streamlined post-disaster damage assessment process that builds on the existing knowledge and expertise of State or Tribe and local partners to identify damage after a natural or man-made disaster. Eligible Tribes and U.S. territories are considered the same as States for application of FEMA programs; the Manual is aimed at clarifying FEMA damage assessment guidance, promoting standardized information collection, and assisting in the development of requests for federal disaster assistance.
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Damage Assessment Operations Manual
The FEMA Damage Assessment Operations Manual is intended to expedite decision-making and the delivery of assistance by defining national standards for assessing damage and clearly outlining the information considered when evaluating requests for a Major Disaster Declaration. To support this overall objective, this manual aims to achieve three major goals:
Promote accuracy by clearly defining the information and documentation that should be collected to assess damage and support requests for Stafford Act assistance;
Promote consistency by standardizing the criteria used to assess damage to residential homes and offering clear guidance on assessing damage to infrastructure;
Promote efficiency by empowering emergency management at all levels with the structure and information needed to streamline damage assessment efforts.
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Happy 1st Anniversary to My Pantry Shelf!
December 10, 2011
My Pantry Shelf celebrates its first anniversary this week. The year has absolutely flown by (as it probably would have with or without the blog), but 90+ posts later this blog has taken on a life of its own. This project began as an avenue to share my passion for cooking and preserving fresh seasonal ingredients. Eating homemade meals made with fresh ingredients is a core value in our family. Regardless of the time constraints of our busy lives, we make a strong effort to celebrate our family meals, expose our children to a wide array of seasonal foods, and utilize as much of our garden produce as possible. I firmly believe that the modern working family, with a little planning, can still eat homemade nutritious meals made with the bounty of the seasons. This is my little space in world to share my enthusiasm for fresh foods. It is full of ideas for how to prepare dishes to eat right away, as well as inspiration for how preserve the freshest foods to enjoy later in the year.
This site has proven to be more than I could ever have imagined. My life was full with two small kids and a full-time teaching job before I began writing these posts. Surprisingly though, instead of overwhelming an already busy woman, My Pantry Shelf fulfills a deep need that had gone unnurtured in recent years. It gives me a place to be creative and interact with others who share my passion for food. Through this space I have met so many wonderful cooks across the country who also seek to fill their days and their bellies with delicious foods. This space belongs to me and all of you who have come to share it with me.
Thank you to everyone who reads and cooks along with me. It is such a delight to know you are out there and trying my recipes. I truly appreciate those of you who have reported back after making these dishes in your own homes and to those of you who spread the word about this site and help it grow!
As a tribute to the year, here are some highlights…
The most popular posts of the year:
Peppered Peach and Rosemary Jam
Edible Gifts! Chocolate and Caramel Sauces
My family's favorite recipes:
Biscuit-topped Chicken Pot Pie
Chipotle Black Bean and Butternut Squash Salad
Beets with Pistachios and Mint
Sweet and Spicy Zucchini Pickles
Food52 contest winners and Editor's Picks:
Sausage and Kale Dinner Tart (winner Best Dirt Cheap Dinner)
Tequila Lime Tart (Editor's Pick)
Orange Quinoa with Almonds, Olives, and Feta (Editor's Pick)
Pumpkin Coconut Pudding
November 19, 2011
Pumpkin pie is essential at any Thanksgiving feast, but to be honest it is not the part of the meal that I look forward to. After a heavy meal of turkey, gravy, and of course stuffing, I find it hard to rally excitement for pie. Generally I enjoy a few bites of the filling and leave the crust lonely on the plate. This is what got me thinking about skipping the crust completely and making a pumpkin pudding in its place.
Pumpkin Coconut Pudding is a thick, silky coconut milk based pudding seasoned with traditional pie spices. This rich pudding is familiar enough to satisfy the expectation of a Thanksgiving pumpkin dessert, yet different enough to stand out as something special. Using coconut milk means that the pudding (without the whipped cream) is actually vegan, so you can safely serve to a mixed crowd including those lactose and gluten intolerant folks who seem to be cropping up in every family. This pudding could not be simpler to make. Heat the coconut milk and pumpkin, then stir in a slurry of spices and cornstarch to thicken it. For a casual fare, spoon it directly from a serving bowl and let guests add their own toppings. For a fancier presentation, spoon hot pudding into beautiful dishes or glasses and decoratively top before serving. This may be a break in tradition, but who knows, perhaps I am not the only one who is happy to leave the crust behind.
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Apple Blackberry Cake
August 24, 2011
Summer is not complete without a morning spent picking blackberries. Last weekend, under the pressure of a fall-like chill in the air and the craziness of back to school time, the kids and I pushed out for a ramble along the creek. We brought the wagon, a gazillion containers, and a baby doll or two. We dressed in our jeans and forced socks and closed shoes onto our spoiled summer feet. We were ready for a real berry picking session. What we found however is that like all other summer fruits (tomatoes especially!) everything is super late this year.
Not about to let a little thing like red under-ripe blackberries get us down, we assigned ourselves roles for our Blackberry Team. I picked the berries, my little man dumped the small containers into the bigger ones, and my little lady dragged the wagon up and down the trail laughing hysterically. After an hour of hard work (and just a few scrapes), we cruised home with a half-gallon of berries. Just enough for a few smoothies and Apple Blackberry Cake. While we suffer a shortage of ripe blackberries, we have boxes and boxes of Gravenstein apples from my parents' trees.
Apple Blackberry Cake is a treat to make each late summer or fall. Though it is simple to prepare, somehow the cake has the ability to pass as both an elegant special dessert and a casual weeknight treat. This time it even disguised itself as a birthday cake. The apples are peeled and sliced and then pressed into a basic butter and brown sugar batter. The blackberries scatter across the top lending both a colorful burst and a tart contrast to the apples. The sugar and cinnamon sprinkled over the top help to form a nice sweet crunchy topping. This cake is well matched with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. I would not mind eating a slice for breakfast either with a nice cup of coffee.
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Vanilla Ice Cream with Cherry Rhubarb Sauce
June 22, 2011
Our ice cream maker does not get much attention in the winter. It sits lonely in the pantry, waiting to be remembered. It is not that ice cream is not just as good in the wintertime, but I seem to be busy making other desserts and rarely break it out. So the other day when our first hot days coincided with my son's case of strep throat, I knew it was time to make some ice cream.
The process of making homemade ice cream is simple. Cream, milk, sugar and eggs cook into a custard. The custard cools and then is poured into the ice cream maker to freeze. The difficult part is making an ice cream that does not have an icy taste. For a long time my go-to recipe was from Christopher Kimball's The Dessert Bible. It is a great recipe and as usual his descriptions of the process and what can go wrong are extremely helpful. After reading a glowing review on food52 though, I decided to try a new recipe this time. I was not disappointed.
This Vanilla Ice Cream is rich and smooth with beautiful bits of vanilla seeds flecked throughout. It did not have the iciness that plagues so many homemade ice creams. Do not be tempted to reduce the fat here. Yes, this is a rich treat, but really you only need a small scoop. Enjoy yourself in moderation. If you really can not find a vanilla bean, you can use 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, but it will not be as good. If you are new to vanilla beans and have questions about how to scrape the seeds, check out Marissa's great video on Food in Jars.
Chocolate Birthday Cake
May 23, 2011
It is birthday season in our family. By some lucky roll of the dice, almost every member of our family was born between April and August. We celebrate the birth of someone every couple of weeks, usually with the a candle topped Chocolate Birthday Cake.
This cake began as my own personal favorite. I, like many, am a huge fan of chocolate. I am fairly certain that my birthday cake was chocolate for at least the first 25 years of my life (perhaps longer). About 5 years ago, I came across this recipe for chocolate cake from Ina Garten. Since then, I have made it countless times.
Imagine my delight when this cake became a favorite for my family as well! This year already, I have made it five times. In fact I have made it so much that I was reluctant when asked to make the most recent batch. I thought- Hadn't we already eaten that cake enough this season? There are so many other good cakes to try. But then I whipped up the batter, baked the cake, and tried a sample crumb, shhhhh. This cake tastes sooo good! I would happily sign on to many more years of baking this exact cake.
Chocolate Birthday Cake is rich, chocolately, and incredibly moist. The buttermilk gives it a pleasant tang and the last minute addition of brewed coffee deepens the delightful chocolate flavor. As with any chocolate dish, it will be as good as the cocoa you use. I prefer Ghiradelli or Scharfen Berger. The frosting choice will create the identity of the cake. Mocha Buttercream is the frosting I most often pair with the cake. I have also made it with vanilla buttercream and strawberry buttercream. Really, you cannot go wrong. This cake is absolutely decadent and delicious. The very definition of a chocolate cake. It is perfect for a birthday or any time you need a good chocolate fix.
Chocolate Birthday Cake
from Ina Garten
makes 1 8-inch layer cake
Parchment paper for lining pans
Butter for greasing pans
1 3/4 cup all- purpose flour, plus more for dusting pans
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I use Ghiradelli)
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 2 8-inch round cake pans. Line the bottoms with parchment. Dust pans with flour.
Sift together the dry ingredients into a large bowl: flour, sugar cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In a separate bowl, mix buttermilk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla. Pour wet ingredients into dry and mix until just combined. Pour in the hot coffee and mix until it is incorporated. Be sure to scrape down sides and bottom to ensure all the flour mixture is thoroughly moistened. Batter will look very thin.
Pour batter evenly into the 2 prepared pans. Slide pans in the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Place pans on a cooling rack and let sit for 10 minutes. Slide a knife around the inside edge of each pan to loosen the cake, then invert onto the cooling racks. Peel the parchment off the bottom. Let cakes cool completely before frosting.
Lay one layer, flat side up on your cake plate or stand. Spread a layer of frosting over the top. Place the second cake round on the frosting, flat side up. Apply a generous amount of frosting to the top of the cake. Spread the frosting over the top and down the sides. Finish by filling in any places where the cake is exposed and smoothing the top and sides with a spatula. If the frosting is too loose, put it in the refrigerator and allow it to set up before spreading. The frosted cake can be kept on the counter until ready to serve. If it is a very hot day, keep it in the refrigerator to prevent the frosting from weeping.
Unfrosted cakes can be made ahead and frozen. After they are completely cool, wrap tightly in plastic and freeze for up to three months. Be careful not to place anything onto of the cakes. Even though they are frozen, then are still delicate and will crush easily.
For a larger cake and crowd, you can double the recipe. I have done this successfully many times.
Mocha Buttercream
adapted from Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven
makes enough for 1 8-inch layer cake
1 cup butter, at room temperature
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup fresh coffee, cooled
Cream the butter. Add the vanilla and mix. Sift in the cocoa and sugar (Do not forget to sift. If you add lumps in at this point, they are almost impossible to remove). Add the coffee and beat. It may appear curdled or separated at first. Continue beating frosting until it is fully incorporated, light, and fluffy. Spread on cake.
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Dandelion Vinegar
April 8, 2011
It is time to tap into the gatherer within! While there is a significant movement pushing people to develop their own victory gardens and support local growers, we still tend to ignore the wild plants volunteering all around us. Dandelion, Taraxacum officional, grows wild across much of the United States and so is accessible to just about anyone. Though you probably think more of Round-up than of salad when you see a dandelion, I am here to change that perception. Dandelions are delicious! Dandelion is often wrongly perceived as a foe to the garden and rarely considered an edible treat. Dandelion is both beneficial to the garden, highly nutritious, and tasty.
Dandelions help the garden in multiple ways. Dandelions send down a tap-root that breaks up heavy soil. The root also helps draw nutrients from down deep and then deposit them on surface as the leaves decay. They are also beautiful. It would be hard to find a child that is not in awe of the snowy globes of dandelion seed.
The name, Dandelion, comes from the French, dent de lion, or tooth of the lion. This is a nod at the serrated leaves of the plant. Identify dandelion by its serrated, hairless leaves, its non-branched flower stem, and its milky sap. Dandelion is highly nutritious. It boasts vitamin A, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, iron, and more. Well stocked produce markets offer dandelion greens, but those are a cultivated variety. Most people do not realize that the garden weed is edible. The heavy rains of winter mean a beautiful crop of dandelion growing, with any luck, right outside your door! Harvest dandelion in the spring when the leaves are long, bright green, and fleshy. Since dandelion is often the target of toxic sprays, make absolutely certain that the dandelion you pick is from an area that is free from harmful chemicals.
The dandelion root and leaves produce a wonderful herbal vinegar. To make dandelion vinegar, harvest the root and leaves from a dandelion plant or many (you will be "weeding" at the same time!). Wash the dandelion carefully, remove any flowers or flower stems. Mince the plant and cover in balsamic vinegar. The dandelion infuses the vinegar with deep, earthy flavors and nutrients. Strain the vinegar and serve in salad dressings, add to a soup for a delightful acidic burst, or use anytime you would use plain balsamic vinegar. The flowers are beautiful added to salads.
Dandelion Vinegar
dandelion leaves and roots
balsamic vinegar
Wash leaves and roots. Remove any flowers, flower stems, or dried leaves. Mince. Place in a sterilized jar and pour balsamic vinegar over the top so that the herb is submerged by 1 inch. Cover and let sit for 3 weeks. Strain the vinegar and use as you wish.
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Dentistry is like any other branch of medicine. You have general practitioners, and you have specialists.
A periodontist is a dentist who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of periodontal disease. Periodontists receive extensive training in these areas, including three additional years of education beyond dental school. Periodontists are familiar with the latest techniques for diagnosing and treating periodontal disease.
In the same way your family physician handles your systemic health, referring you to specialists as needed, your general dentist acts as the conductor of your oral healthcare orchestra. He or she knows when you have a situation that requires treatment by a specialist. When you show symptoms of periodontal disease, the specialist to see is a periodontist.
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In a previous blog post, I began to extol the virtues of the Craftsy platform. I first found it while searching for a bread workshop with Peter Reinhardt. Well, after having such a positive experience with Peter's class, I decided to take another one. This time I tried Nancie McDermott's Everyday Thai Cooking.
One of her lessons included instructions on how to make Beef Sliders with a Thai sweet and spicy sauce. Her burgers looked lovely, but her buns were store bought. So I decided to make my own.
For the buns, I used Peter Reinhardt's Sandwich Bread recipe and shaped the dough into slider-sized rolls. I then brushed them with an egg wash and topped them with sesame seeds.
For the sliders, I decided to change things up a bit and use lamb instead of beef. I don't want to post Nancie's recipe without permission, so please take her class to gain access to it. The burgers, the cilantro pesto (mixed into the burgers) and the absolutely amazing Thai sweet and spicy sauce are all included in the class materials.
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This week's Tuesday's with Dorie selection, Chocolate Amaretti Torte, was chosen by Holly, who runs the delicious- Phemomenon. Go to her blog to get the recipe!
The subtitle of this recipe is 15 Minute Magic, meaning that you can blend this cake together in 15 minutes, using the food processor. (It did take me a little longer than that, but not much!) Yeah! I decided to make this the night before Easter and let it sit in the fridge overnight and we had it for dessert on Sunday.
The base of the cake is ground Amaretti cookies and ground almonds, which is combined with chocolate, sugar, eggs and butter.
It has a thick chocolate glaze and almond-flavored whipped cream. If you like chocolate- you will love this cake. If you like almonds- even better.
I thought it was good, but very rich. You can't really eat very much of it at a time and that is a good thing. A few people at the table thought we could've just eaten this for our Easter dinner, because it was so filling. Overall, a nice dessert. Very fancy and formal. Check out the TWD Blogroll to see everyone else's opinion on this chocolately torte!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
TWD- 15 Minute Magic: Chocolate Amaretti Torte
This week's Tuesday's with Dorie selection, Chocolate Amaretti Torte, was chosen by Holly, who runs the delicious- Phemomenon. Go to her blog to get the recipe!
Posted by Mary Ann at 2:00 AM
Labels: almonds, cake, chocolate, dessert, Dorie Greenspan, eggs, Tuesdays with Dorie, whipped cream
26 comments:
- Steph said...
Gorgeous decoration as usual Mare! It looks delicious.
- April 14, 2009 at 2:17 AM
- Marthe said...
It is quite a rich torte! Yours looks really good!!
- April 14, 2009 at 4:56 AM
- farah said...
Beautiful! :)
- April 14, 2009 at 5:38 AM
- Hindy said...
Your cake looks lovely! I'm with you that it was very rich.
- April 14, 2009 at 6:43 AM
- vibi said...
Very nice Mare!
Plus the bunnies, the eggs and the chicks, it was a lot of chocolate for Easter, no?
But yours was probably the best looking ones anyways! LOL
- April 14, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- Meghan said...
This is such a beautiful torte! Very chocolatey :)
- April 14, 2009 at 9:22 AM
- Leslie said...
This looks gorgeous! I love how it looks with the whipped cream.
- April 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- Peggy said...
I don't think my glaze is as thick as yours. And your photos are beautiful! It all looks delicious.
- April 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM
- Maria said...
Perfect dessert for Easter! Glad everyone enjoyed it!
- April 14, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- Cathy said...
Glad everyone liked this. I agree that it is really rich! Yours looks totally gorgeous as always! I hope you had a happy Easter!
- April 14, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- chocolatechic said...
Oh, your torte looks fabulous.
- April 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Your torte looks amazing. I like the cookie on top.
- April 14, 2009 at 2:16 PM
- Pamela said...
I didn't get to make it, but it does sound really rich. It looks delicious, Mare.
- April 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
Your cake looks great. It was a bit rich for me too. Although I did like the indulgence a bit at a time.
- April 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Your desserts always look so lovely!
- April 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- Mumsy said...
Wasn't it fabulous? Your torte looks great--of course. :)
- April 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
Your glaze looks beautifully thick! Nice plating, too!
- April 14, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- The Food Librarian said...
Your torte looks fantastic! I skipped the whipped cream...yours looks so light and delicious!
- April 14, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- Unknown said...
Beautiful torte! It was a bit too rich for me, but like you said, that's a good thing as I hardly ate any of it :)
- April 15, 2009 at 1:33 AM
- Marie Rayner said...
That looks amazing Mary Ann. I opted out of this one, but am now wishing I hadn't!
- April 15, 2009 at 2:53 AM
- Eliana said...
Your torte looks great. I love the natural light photos.
- April 15, 2009 at 12:46 PM
- Jennifer said...
I agree, it was super rich. Which is good in that I could only eat a thin slice, but I wonder how many calories that one thin slice was? (Oh, and one thin slice times 3 times per day probably really adds up!)
- April 15, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- steph- whisk/spoon said...
looks great! very rich, i agree, but so good!
- April 15, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- Aggie said...
Oh...I want this now!!! Looks great Mare!!
- April 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM
- TeaLady said...
Ah, that looks fantastic. Fudgey! Moist! Delicious!
- April 15, 2009 at 7:36 PM
- Teanna said...
I would TOTALLY skip easter dinner to have a piece of that cake!
- April 16, 2009 at 1:07 PM


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