Dick Soup
Olympic-level dining with Bill Plaschke and Kevin Pang. I'm not embedding it because the web geniuses at the Chicago Trib have a player that doesn't just play when you click it but whenever you open my site. For the rest of the month. So, in the name of sanity, here's the link.
Ooh, thanks for not embedding. Out here at the edge of the soybean field, I'm on dial-up. Considering how long it takes to download audio/video, I would just skip you for a month.
(Full disclosure: this summer our renter actually planted corn in what I call "the soybean field." And in a little corner of it I put in melons and squash.)
Axman at August 9, 2008 8:13 AM
Since you seem to be a gentleman farmer, can you tell me how tall carrot plants grow in six weeks? It's for a column. I do not farm. In case anyone was wondering.
Amy Alkon at August 9, 2008 9:50 AM
It's probably a good thing you don't farm. The dry cleaning bills would be a bitch.
Eric at August 9, 2008 11:15 AM
i hate china
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at August 9, 2008 11:39 AM
There is a GREAT travel documentary with Ewan McGregor called "The Long Road Home". At one point they were in a small village out in the middle of nowhere Mongolia, and they were the guests of honor. On the menu that night: 100 testicle stew. They chopped the balls off damn near every animal you could think of in the area.
Eric at August 9, 2008 12:53 PM
The height of carrot plants after six weeks? Typically, from 12 to 18 inches--a bunch of frilly leaves sprouting from the top of the root, with no prominent central stem. The height can vary a lot because of differences in soil moisture and fertility.
Info you probably don't need: carrots are biennials, so if you leave them in the ground (and if they don't freeze there), then in the second year they send up flower stems using the nutrients stored in the roots. In that case, they get a lot higher. Realistically, though, hardly anyone winters them over in the ground.
I like the "gentleman" part of "gentleman farmer." My former department chair (and hunting and fishing buddy), said he was visiting recently with the former chair of a different department and had occasion to mention me. The other guy and his wife said they didn't know me well, but that I alway struck them as a real gentleman.
My buddy said, "You're right, you didn't know him well!"
Axman at August 9, 2008 2:21 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2008/08/09/dick_soup.html#comment-1578394">comment from AxmanYou totally rock. You don't know anything about redwood trees, do you? Height at a year of the seedlings? I found a page that says they grow 2-5 inches in a year, and then others that said otherwise. I need the slow-grow ones...wrote to some forresters at some parks, and have yet to hear back.
Amy Alkon at August 9, 2008 2:46 PM
Sorry, I know nothing about redwood trees except from photos and descriptions; nothing whatever about their early growth.
Axman at August 10, 2008 1:11 PM
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