Tag: lamb

  • The Sheep and the Goats

    The Sheep and the Goats

    I wound up over at MGC today, switching off with Amanda. My post was about the publishing industry, but it drew on my background of caring for sheep and goats. I sometimes – ok, very rarely – miss that. It’s incredibly hard work, and endless work, too. You can’t take a day off from milking…

  • ETWYRT: Stephen Simmons

    ETWYRT: Stephen Simmons

    As I am working my way through this blog series, I am tapping authors of all sorts for recipes and dishes. There will be traditionally published best-sellers, at least one who is better known for graphic art than prose, an editor, and independent authors. In some ways this was conceived as a way to help…

  • Adventurous Eating

    I grew up eating things most people wouldn’t. At a very early age, I learned about edible wild foods, and although I think that mostly started with fruits and berries, it quickly moved to dandelions, dock, and other greenery. My grandma took me foraging on the Oregon coast, where mussels, gooseneck barnacles, and whelks might…