Nope.
Ok, so I learned that’s not true about me. I also know how much I change my mind about whatever creative projects I’m thinking about. And so this blog isn’t really about food anymore because I already tired of that. Although I am still trying to make an album about fruits and vegetables for kids that will be called Maximum Freshness. The Carrot Song is all I have done so far, along with half a song of Yams.
But I’m still interested in food. Here’s what I want to do now:
- I’m trying to only eat meat that I know where it came from and how it was treated. I’m on Day 3 and it’s pretty hard. I don’t want to eat soy patties, and when you’re looking for a place to eat while driving through northern Van Nuys, it’s a little tough. I’ve made an exception for dinner at people’s houses. The “Dinner Party Clause.” I don’t want to be the “Where Did You Get Your Meat From?” guy. If anyone’s interested, that position is still open.
- At some point THIS YEAR (I upper-cased that because I’ve been saying this for a year) I am going to kill an animal, prepare it, and eat it. Michael Pollan inspired me to realize that if I can’t at least once do this myself, then I don’t feel right eating meat that other people killed. That’s just me. Maybe I’ve also got The Murder Bug….
- Back to my first bullet-point…I’m going to research where most restaurant chains get their meat from, and how their animals are treated. I LOVE me a chicken breast sandwich on Wheat Bread with tons of vegetables from Subway. (With Sweet Onion Sauce and Honey Mustard.) But I’m about 98% positive that if their chickens could rate their “subway experience” on Yelp, it would probably not be a glowing review.
- Jamie Oliver has set-up his next run of the Food Revolution in Los Angeles (with his demo kitchen in Westwood) and I want to get involved somehow. I guess the LA school system is giving him all kinds of problems…which is no surprise. I’m not sure what I’m trying to do with that yet. I guess I should just start volunteering and see where that takes me. I’d love to lend my creativity somehow; perhaps the Maximum Freshness album could be part of the Food Revolution?
So I guess I am still very interested in food-related issues. You got me. You got me!! You always know how to make me smile. Of course we’ll see how long it actually takes for me to get my shit together on this stuff. I’m pretty scattered right now and trying to make sense of everything.
If you’re interested, here are the other things in “my pipeline.” (Ouch. Get ‘em out!):
- Writing a screenplay about the world’s largest boy band with my friend Jeremy. It’s called Boyz4Dayz.
- I’m the West Coast Sales & Marketing Director (A title I gave myself, and no one’s taken it away yet) for a line of baby-specific, all-natural cleaning products. (Of course.) It’s called Dapple, and if you have children you should check it out: www.dapplebaby.com. I made a video:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlbFdzDFlbs
- Helping my mom put together a book of her essays.
- Looking to set up a regular live show in LA. Not sure exactly what it’s going to be yet…but something fun.
Ok, I don’t want to bore you. I know you’ve got stuff to do. And don’t you have guests arriving in an hour? You really should do some cleaning up first. Your place is a MESS.
“A Ripe Banana.” #3 in the Songs About Produce series.
Bananas are helpful, sensitive, and soothing.
While I would like to take credit for the piano, it’s a Jeff Buckley karaoke track.
Currently in the works: Broccoli, Yams, Tangerines, Plums, and Eggplant.
Which one is the most delicious? YOU.
You are the most delicious.
Filed under songs about produce, songs, banana buckley
Apricots! This is #2 in my Songs About Produce. I plan on making a song for every fruit and vegetable in the world…some covers, like this one, and some originals, like Carrots of Love.
Stop in every Monday for a brand new song, and don’t forget to eat your fruits and vegetables.
Or I will KILL YOU.
URBAN FORAGING
Join our adventure following the free fruit map for sunset junction from www.fallenfruit.org. Then go follow a map yourself. Sucka!
Warning: Do not pick cactus fruit with your bare hands. The pricklies are tiny and will stick in your skin for days. Also, some people have allergic skin reactions to the milky sap from fig trees, even though they’re not allergic to the actual fruit. Both of these things happened not to me, but to my fruit-picking partner. Maybe the third warning is to not be my fruit-picking partner?
Carrots of Love! I made this song with the wonderfully talented Jason Miller, and I wanted to put it on my blog before it goes on iTunes. It’s part of an album I’m making temporarily titled “Songs About Produce for Kids.” I hope you dig it!
Carrots!!
This amazing gang of cowboy carrots is by Jo Edwards, my good friend and amazing artist from Joannatorium. If you’re an artist of any kind, you’ll find her drawing-a-day blog really inspiring.
She made these hilarious carrots for a song I’m currently writing with the talented Jason Miller for my kids album: Songs About Fruits and Vegetables. I can’t wait to share it with you.
What’s your favorite fruit or vegetable? Maybe I’ll write a song about it!
Mine is currently arugula. Who knew lettuce could taste like pepper? Did anyone know that? Am I the first person? No way. Really?? No…
Filed under arugula, jo, edwards, carrots jason miller album joannatorium
This is the intro/teaser for the pilot episode of Maximum Freshness. I’m hoping to team-up with a production company and get this monkey rollin…
Filed under milk raw video
Hi-ho Superforest!
So my good friends Jackson Nash and Jesse Carmichael have started a permaculture farm in Hawaii and it is breathtaking. The short definition of permaculture is: Farming land in a way that maximizes productivity and minimizes effort by using the terrain, plants and animals in natural ways that all benefit each other exponentially. Essentially, you set up a system where most of the work happens with little human interference.
It makes sense…think of all the natural biodiversity in the world that occurs without us: Bees pollinate flowers and make honey, ducks freely give their droppings to the fish below them, chickens control weeds and bugs while providing eggs and fertilizer…and on and on. I guess permaculture is just a way of replicating systems that occur in nature already…and the goal is always abundance.
To see what’s happening at Zero One (the name of their farm), check out Jackson’s really cool blog SUPERFOREST.ORG.
http://teamsuperforest.org/superforest/author/jackson/
Chicken Feet Soup for the Soul
So I forget why he makes it, but every other week my healthy-eating roommate Josh boils up an evil concoction made entirely from slow-cooked chicken claws.
I remember him explaining it to me one time, but that’s all I remember.
It eventually makes a gelatin that he later turns into a drinkable broth. Which he drinks.
Does anyone have a guess as to the benefits of Chicken Voodoo Soup? I’ll ask him in the morning and let you know what I find out. My guesses are:
- It makes him more powerful, similar to when Aztec warriors would drink the blood of their battle victims.
- Did Aztecs ever do that type of thing? After saying that I’m not so sure.
- I do remember in grade school learning about a game that the Aztecs would play that was like a cross of handball and basketball, and the teams that lost would be killed.
- I think that same year I did a report on maize and brought in some delicious homemade cornbread, “Just like Aztec cornbread! Except it wasn’t made a thousand years ago!”
