I’m always careful not to waste food. (Insert joke about sale of Brooklyn Bridge or waterfront lots in Arizona here.) So after cutting the rind off a pork roast, I popped the scraps into a pot of water and boiled it to make stock. The result – gelatinous glop. Julia Child probably could have turned […]
A beach, a dock and the two faces of styrofoam
I’ve just returned from the scene of a conundrum. A few days ago a Whidbey visitor left a comment here on Tidal Life about a section of dock that had floated up and lodged on a local beach. They asked for my help finding the correct agency to remove it. While I was flattered to […]
How to barbecue with a little less guilt
Summer on the beach can lead to burning. The smoke rises every weekend from beach fires, camp fires, backyard fire-pit gatherings. The first week of July we add fireworks. And all season long there’s barbecuing. I love to cook on the barbecue, but each year as I face another couple of months of adding extra […]
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Lately my reading has listed heavily toward young adult fiction. Never mind why. All you need to know is that the latest representative of this genre to sail through here was Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. The moment I heard that title – over the phone, from my daughter – I knew what the story […]