From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Pop Culture and High Art: Part 1

August 20, 2010

…to be continued. ————- see also: My Brother’s Toasted Wrap: An Intro To Quality or Cultivate Your Connoisseurship

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Joel Salatin Shouldn’t Be Famous

August 14, 2010

Joel Salatin owns and runs Polyface Farms, a pristine organic farm in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. If you’ve read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, you’ve read about him. If you’ve seen Food, Inc., you’ve seen him interviewed. Salatin and his family approach farming from a standpoint of environmentalism and stewardship, thereby producing extraordinary beef, turkey, chicken, [...]

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Cultivate Your Connoisseurship

August 7, 2010

Sometime in the late ‘90s an art collector named Richard L. Feigen came across a painting at a Sotheby’s auction that he really loved. Feigen is an avid art collector and, by his estimation, the painting dated somewhere around 1430. He bought the painting for around $20,000 and brought it back to the States. A [...]

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