The summer months came,
a-rollin' thunder!
Full Moon Catering really got a lift off!
What had previously been my sole endeavoring,
suddenly found favor in Independent Hollywood!
And a-slogging we have been ever since!
With joy in our hearts!
(Suddenly We! Suddenly Our!)
I give praise to the workers!
I give thanks to the eaters!
To the fruits!
To the vegetables!
To the season!
What a great, good gift!
What lucky, lovely fortune!
What generosity!
What bounty!
What thanks!
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| So many melon salads this summer. Here, Watermelon, Mango, Shiso and Lime Zest |
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| Pickle Demonstration at Summercamp |
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| Christy Roberts, pictured here on left, and I met for the first time. She was very enthusiastic to share some RIOT GRRRL love. Sister Pickle! This history of community exchange and direct action lives on. Our time, still, is NOW. |
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| Jars getting ready! Jars looking good! |
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| Your pickles are ready, good madam! good sir! |
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| Collards with Dried Apricots and Pistachios |
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| One of the movie we catered this summer is called California Solo. It's main character is an organic farmer. After their time filming at the farm, the Art Department gave us their props: bags and bags of beautiful organic produce. I loved this exchange and challenge. |
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| Baby Daikon Radishes |
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| An Easter Egg Basket of Beets! |
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| A Powerful Chioggia Beet Raw, it is variegated pink and white. Cooked and skinned, as it is here, it is a luminous orange-pink. |
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| Summer Solstice! Rituals of the Earth Turning! Charles was so kind and took me to his friends' house where we picked Santa Rosa Plums in the sultry deep dusk. |
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| More Beets and Beats! Enchanting these pickles with Bad Brains Magick! Photo by our very own Laurel Frank |
Don't care what they may say
We got that attitude!
Don't care what you may do!
We got that attitude!
YEA!
We got that PMA!
(positive mental attitude)
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| Staff Lunch with the Cooks! Math and Sarah in our tree house break room! |
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| A funny trek to San Diego for a pickle demonstration at the invitation of Andrew Printer. Here, buskers sing Beatles' songs while the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence invite the good people in. |
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| The Sisters reviewing canning instructions. |
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| The youngest and tiniest pickler yet! |
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| Robert from Cookbook and local Echo Park food enthusiast taking in the Greek wine. Marta and Robert hosted me at a lovely pickle sale at No. 2 on the night of July's Full Moon. It's been a long time since I have really been able to look up in the sky and remember that the Earth is turning. I was very grateful. |
Cookbook is an important local green grocer here in Echo Park.
They are doing some fantastic summer programming at No. 2.
I am of the opinion that this sort of thoughtful community engagement is what distinguishes food sustainability lifestyles from food sustainability as a way of life.
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| I was so glad to take a walk in the woods with my old buddy, Teddy Kwo! |
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| My best friend, Amanda Eicher came from San Franciso, to take a turn as one of the proletariat workers that wo-man the kitchen. Lately, I feel we are doing historical reenactments from the Enchanted Broccoli Forest! |
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| Despite our heavy slogging, Amanda and I found time to be HUMANS! Here she is picking wild fennel in Topanga Canyon and of course, looking very glamorous. |
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| The Sun! The Sea! The You! The Me! |
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| My old AE! I was so warmed by her loving company! |
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| The Figs Arrived! Eamon and Gina let me come a-gleaning again this year! |
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| Of sky and earth! |
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| Short Ribs and Figs! The eaters went wild! And why not? There is magick in them there figs! |
