december2008
December 2008
Arts:
Arts:
Takacs quartet, as classical as it gets: Haydn, Mozart & Schumann
Movies:
Movies:
Random Harvest, an intriguing old classic
Documentaries:
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:
Incident of the month:
The kettle arrived: tea anyone?
What caught our attention:
What caught our attention:
Solar ovens for cooking food, as slow as possible
What did we learn:
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:
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