tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33194922.post3554922062553899598..comments2023-09-17T01:03:00.183-07:00Comments on Quixote's Tart: Zucchini and (sigh) My StyAileenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311575368105261398noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33194922.post-9009799818541526822007-08-01T10:25:00.000-07:002007-08-01T10:25:00.000-07:00Oh, thank you so much for the sympathy! Fortunate...Oh, thank you so much for the sympathy! Fortunately that horrible, wretched sty is gone! So funny that you think of Northern Exposure - I must confess that I hadn't seen it until this year too. I can't believe I missed it entirely when it was aired on television. We don't have nearly as many trees and moose, but I'd say we surpass in characters. As for feta, I'm sure if I ever planned a dinner all around it and went to the A.C. with the sole purpose of procuring it, there'd be a ton of garlic and cucumbers but no feta to be had. The unpredictability makes it fun. Plus, it is a good reminder not to take anything for granted and I derive endless entertainment from nurturing my pantry. As for the cyanide - they want to build a huge open-pit gold mine upriver. The cyanide, apparantly, helps flush out the gold. If it gets into the water, however, it could have a devastating effect on a salmon run that has sustained a Yup'ik culture that predates the gold mining industry by at least a couple thousand years. The town council doesn't really have much say about whether or not the mine gets built. But they could ban cyanide from the town. Some want to do so on principle, others as a negotiating tactic to get the state to build a railroad out to the Southwest. Some fight such a ban on principle, others because they don't want to lose the job opportunities and other financial benefits of the mine. In the end, the council didn't ban it. They cited to many reasons for not doing so, though I suspect few of those reasons were actually researched. As for me, I just can't fathom risking anything about this place for a project that may dribble down a few local dollars, but not nearly enough to even start to match the risk. I think I'm having adverse flashbacks to the perspective of project sponsors and financers that I know too well from my project finance days back in New York. I take little assurance from any of their assurances. All in all, I wish more people could become aware of the unique beauty and historical relevance of this part of Alaska before the project gets final approval.Aileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08311575368105261398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33194922.post-13336909088045567112007-07-31T06:04:00.000-07:002007-07-31T06:04:00.000-07:00You poor, poor girl. It is so unfair to be in pain...You poor, poor girl. It is so unfair to be in pain AND feel hideous at the same time. You make me want to go to the farmers market and make you a care package right now! I think of you every time I watch a Northern Exposure episode ;) My husband's obsessed, but I'd never seen it until this year. I can't believe you get feta but sometimes not garlic...Yummy looking zucchini by the way! What's the cyanide used for? Did they in fact ban it?Figs, Bay, Winehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15453787426889071004noreply@blogger.com