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July 3, 2011 Every now and then I catch myself in an attitude that shows how after eight years, I still haven’t really adjusted to living in Michigan. One of those thoughts occurred to me this week when I was enjoying another bowl of fresh organic Michigan strawberries. Diane says we are paying about five bucks [...] March 27, 2011 Within about twenty minutes of posting the Thornapple Blog on March 13 I started to have second thoughts. I had been attending a philosophy conference where more than one speaker had commented on the way long dead American philosophers (William James, John Dewey, Mary Parker Follett) failed to comment on or become involved [...] February 27, 2011 As threatened last week, I’ve been out there riding airplanes again. It’s a little after 6:00 AM in Europe and I’m sitting in the KLM Crown Lounge in Amsterdam where I was presenting a paper called “The Fundamental Problem in Food Ethics.” Simply put, when food prices go up—and right now they are up, [...] December 26, 2010 How many bloggers are writing something like this? My guess would be dozens, at least. Dragging out the year’s “best of” is a pretty hackneyed trope for anyone who had to write something (anything) for a deadline anytime in the past thirty days. The creation of the blogosphere only multiplies the cliché rate [...] October 31, 2010 I’ve decided to go as Hamlet this Halloween. That’s because I’m writing this blog from Seat 2-B on Delta 1123 from Salt Lake City to Detroit. (2-B or Not 2-B… Get it? Yuk, yuk…). Apologies to Thornapple CSA readers who tire of the travelogue nature that this blog takes at times, but it [...] October 3, 2010 I had some great bean soup at Mickey’s Diner in St. Paul, MN yesterday afternoon. I guess Mickey’s has been there for a long, long time. It’s a classic train-car diner—a real train car (but built to be a diner) as opposed to what you see more typically these days. The bean soup [...] September 26, 2010 So here’s a recurring theme: tomatoes. It’s getting near the end of tomato season in Michigan. I just finished a wonderful meal of whole wheat pasta covered with some fresh tomatoes lightly sautéed with green peppers, garlic and onion in olive oil. Add a little organic mozzarella, open a bottle of Italian Valpolicella [...] September 12, 2010 Diane and I just got back from the annual Michigan State University Student Organic Farm Hoophouse Gala Dinner. The organic farm is a teaching and research effort at MSU that has been going for a little over a decade. They offer a certificate program that provides people with no farming experience excellent training [...] September 5, 2010 There’s an old pop song from the ’60s that goes something like this: They say that all good things must end some day. Autumn leaves must fall. It’s Chad and Jeremy, I think, and it’s a guy saying farewell to a summer love. There were a number of these in the ’60s. Did all of us [...] August 29, 2010 So speaking of hunger (weren’t we?) a while back my wife Diane presents a sack to me that our newspaper carrier left for canned goods so we can donate to a local food drive, “What do you want to give?” she asks. I rumble through our rather limited stock of canned items and [...] |
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