For you food lovers and chefs out there, check out these cool sites:
101 Cookbooks: a blog by Heidi Swanson, the author of several cookbooks, including Cook 1.0 and Super Natural Cooking. This site chronicles her adventures with recipes, and how they intersectswith her life, her travels, and her everyday interests.
Also by Heidi Swanson: Mighty Foods: […]

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In the October 2006 issue of National Geographic, David Ewing Duncan undergoes testing for chemicals in his body—320 in all, that can be acquired through food, drink, air, and every product that touches the body. What he found was mind blowing. He tested high—ten times the average—for concentrations of PBDE (polybrominated diphenyl ethers), which is […]

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For those of you who eat organic food and/or worry about corporate control of the food supply, check out what Phil Howard from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems reveals in his Organic Industry Structure chart. Did you know that Coca-Cola owns the Odwalla label? Or that General Mills produces Cascadian Farm and […]

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Mel Kadel
Mel Kadel is from the east coast and now resides in Los Angeles, in a log cabin by the 5 freeway. She works using ancient papers, tiny pens, q-tips and glue.

Carrying the Load
©Copyright 2006 by Mel Kadel. All Rights Reserved.
I first saw Mel’s work in the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of Black Warrior Review. Mel […]

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I love architecture. One of my favorite pastimes is walking through residential neighborhoods in order to ogle brilliantly crafted structures. (Of course, my husband and I also like to point and stare and ponder over how to fix the not so brilliantly structured ones, too.) Armed with only a handful of terms, we point out […]

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Wow! Check out Lucy Williams! This eleven-year-old chef and entrepreneur started Kidz Kitchen, a girl’s camp with an emphasis on cooking, in her (okay, her mother’s) Greenwich, Connecticut home. Lucy is featured in the June 2006 issue of Food & Wine, and she publishes a brochure and website to promote the business. For more information […]

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Interested in archeology or Native Americans? Or just finding cool stuff in the middle of nowhere? Check out what went down at The Range Creek Ranch near Price, Utah.

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Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Screenplay written by Guillermo Arriaga.
Cannes Film Festival: Tommy Lee Jones won Best Actor Award for his role as Pete Perkins. Guillermo Arriaga won Best Screenplay Award.
Cannes Film Festival “Jones, who worked with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who did the screenplay for 21 Grams, describes how the project was born: ‘I […]

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