december2008

December 2008

Arts:

Takacs quartet, as classical as it gets: Haydn, Mozart & Schumann

Movies:

Random Harvest, an intriguing old classic

Documentaries:

-ascent (or rather descent) of money

-do you know what time it is?

-what on earth is wrong with gravity?

Incident of the month:

The kettle arrived: tea anyone?

What caught our attention:

Solar ovens for cooking food, as slow as possible

What did we learn:

To celebrate 200 years of the author and 150 of the book(a bit ahead of time)

What did we (re)discover:

Persimmon, palo santo, caqui...

Gujarati mung beans as lentils

HAPPY FESTIVUS !!!

(the holiday season for the rest of us)

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Our picture of the month:

Del Mar, high (9am) and low (4pm) tide

on December 14th