The lichens and mosses are very happy to soak up our winter rains.
We walked to the Saturday organic farmer’s market (with real farmers, even if they use hydroponics and greenhouses) this morning, and I lost count of the houses we passed with “for sale” signs in front of them….
The common technical term for this kind of market is the (weekly—or similar; periodicity varies) periodic market. They concentrate marketing, and are perfect if the vendors or buyers have to invest considerable travel time to reach the marketplace. Traditional market systems feature periodic markets, which allow vendors to be part-time or small-scale. In areas where most market activity is conducted at periodic markets, the market day rotates among major communities/market locations across a region.
Personally, I think periodic markets are pretty darned interesting when you think about their origins and development…. Bunching up trading is advantageous in multiple ways: e.g., it’s easier to tax by spatially and temporally bunching market activities, it’s safer for participants, it frees everyone for non-market activities (especially production) on the intervening days, it allows different communities to have markets with no simultaneous competitor in the immediate area.
* Apologies; this refers to the Mother Goose nursery rhyme: “To market, to market, to buy a fat pig…“.
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Here’s the fun first step to today’s cooking adventure: making baba ganoush—that is, charring an eggplant right on the burner….
Well, that’s not entirely true, but it makes a good headline!
Cookies that come out of the oven—I like them! (Maybe too much!)
Cookies that result from internet activity—hmm. I delete them frequently.
And just the other day I discovered that there is another kind of cookie that Macromedia hides in its own folder. This explains why I even after I deleted my cookies—the ones that I knew about—a web site would “recognize” me. I now have another set of cookies to deliberately delete, in order to maintain a bit more control over my online persona/profile…. (And, no, I don’t think I’m overly paranoid about this….)
Way back in July 2007, I mentioned another cookie control mechanism—installing a DoubleClick opt-out cookie.
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We did it right yesterday. Black-eyed peas and rice with a side of collards.
Á la Sammy. Which in this case means I used fresh peas (actually beans, I think, but not Phaseolus) that were much nicer than canned, mixed wild rice in with the brown rice, and added thin-sliced onions and ham to the collards.*
Yummy!
* I admit it; I ran out of steam, so no cornbread…. I trust this won’t compromise our luck in 2009….
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Happy New Year!*
* By one popular modern calendar….
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