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Cider 2016
It was an interesting year for apples. In my neighborhood, none of the wild apple trees produced any apples at all. Luckily at my friends A and H’s house, they […]
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Winter Tongue Loop 2016
Big ambitions swirl through my head as I hit the trail. Just five weeks ago this 12 mile mountainy loop was snowless and mostly runnable. How different could today be? […]
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NJ Surf Fishing 2016
It’s 3:30pm on Monday. I’m sitting on a foot-high piling along a jetty surrounded by total chaos: fishermen casting over each other, birds attacking the water, baitfish spraying out of […]
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Seven Sisters Trail Race
Today some friends and I ran the Seven Sisters Trail Race. It’s a really tough race over 7 peaks (and back again) in the Holyoke Range near Amherst, Massachusetts. It’s […]
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NJ Striped Bass Fishing
Toss this ugly 3-pronged hook into a big school of 2-inch bunker (“peanut bunker”), snag a little fish, and let it drop down below the school where the hungry bass […]
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Pickled Hen of the Woods
I had seen what I thought to be a small Hen of the Woods mushroom during the day, and went to fetch it at night. I reached down to pluck […]
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Homemade Salt
It all started after M tasted some of the naturally sparkling Saratoga Springs mineral water and mentioned how salty it tastes. I boiled down some of the sulphury water to […]
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Homemade Vichy Pastilles
The company I work for has an office in Lyon, France. While visiting our office recently, S, an employee from the Lyon office brought a bag of “Vichy Pastilles” to […]
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Vinegar Mother
While I was pickling some excess Hen of the Woods mushroom, I poured vinegar into a measuring cup. Peering into the cup, I noticed a gag-reflex-inducing haze floating in the […]
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