Makin' Candy on the last day of May

This show set up in blocks of 3, just for the pleasure.

• 1. Secret Separation, 2. Saved By Zero, 3. Less Cities, More Moving People: The Fixx
  
• 1. The Theme to the Gary Newman Show, 2. Lollipop Failure, 3. Maybe, I Don't Know: The Elevator Drops
  
• 1. Mandalay Cow, 2. Viva La Muerte, 3. Las Estridentistas: Maria Napoleon
  
• 1. On My Radio, 2. Too Much Pressure, 3. The Selecter: The Selecter
  
• 1. On Peak Hill (Live), 2. Reunion, 3. The Comeback: Stars
  
• 1. Armageddon Days (Are Here Again), 2. Dogs of Lust, 3. I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life): The The
  
• 1. Work to Make it Work, 2. Discipline of Love, 3. What's It Take: Robert Palmer
  
• 1. Anticipate, 2. Out of Range (live), 3. Bliss like this: Ani DiFranco
  
• 1. Kaini Industries, 2. The Smallest Weird Number, 3. Roygbiv: Boards of Canada
  
• 1. One O'Clock Jump, 2. Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider, 3. Too Good to Be True (with Helen Ward, vocal): The Benny Goodman Orchestra, Quartet & Trio, respectively.
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 5/24/05

I forgot my notebook of setlists at the station by mistake. THANK YOU all fellow djs for just leaving it right where I left it! Here's the rundown for another Tuesday evening's worth of fine music.

• Hell Yes: Beck
  
• Third World Lover: Kid Koala & Dynomite D
  
• Killers: Shellac
  
• Private Eyes: Hall & Oates
  
• Music that You Can Dance to: Sparks
  
• I Feel for You: Chaka Khan
  
• Red Hot Mama: Funkadelic
  
• Better Things: The Kinks
  
• Sweet Home Alabama: Lynyrd Skynyrd
  
• Love Crown: Godzuki
  
• Beautiful World: Devo
  
• Fight the Power: Public Enemy
  
• Keep Feelin' (Fascination): Human League
  
• Sagittarius: The i live the life of a movie star secret hideout
  
• Enjoy the Silence: Depeche Mode
  
• Nobody Told Me: John Lennon
  
• Please Please Tell Me Now: Duran Duran
  
• Everything You Say: Holiday
  
• Introspection: Osymyso
  
• Beyond the River: The Cansecos
  
• Such a Woman: The Commodores
  
• Yertle the Turtle: Red Hot Chili Peppers
  
• You I'll Be Following: Love
  
• Cry: Godley & Creme
  
• A Rosinha dos Limones: Max
  
• Mine: Dick Hyman (p), Milt Hinton (b), Eric Cohen (dr) (Manhattan s/t)
  
• Firebird Suite (Introduction & Dance of the Firebird): Tomita Does Stravinsky
  

Alphabet Showdown: Makin' Candy 5/17/05

This is the alphabet show. I wrote down the first band I could think of from A-Z (but trying not to repeat from immediately previous shows). I gave myself 2 rules: the band name can't be the person's name (like no "B" for "Bjork") and avoid bands that start with "The" (though this broke down around "V").

• Dancin' Queen: Abba
  
• Shake Your Money: Black Grape
  
• Say: Cat Power
  
• Love Your Money: Daisy Chainsaw
  
• Yahoo: Erasure
  
• She Drives Me Crazy: Fine Young Cannibals
  
• Head Over Heels: Go-Go's
  
• Don't Know Anything: Hoodoo Gurus
  
• Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly): Icicle Works
  
• Fever: Juluka
  
• The Nearest Future: Kleenex Girl Wonder
  
• Daughters of the Kaos: Luscious Jackson
  
• Rockin in A flat: Madness
  
• Heart-Shaped Box: Nirvana
  
• Supersonic: Oasis
  
• Levitate Me: Pixies
  
• Radio Gaga: Queen
  
• What's the Frequency Kenneth: REM
  
• Tru: Stars
  
• Making Flippy Floppy: Talking Heads
  
• She Caught the Train: UB40
  
• The Drugs Don't Work: The Verve
  
• Factory: Wall of Voodoo
  
• That's Really Super, Supergirl: XTC
  
• Only You: Yaz
  
• Tush: ZZ Top
  
• 3 Gymnopedies: Eric Satie (to celebrate his birthday today)
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 5/10/05 (symmetrical date, yeah?)

Melt in your mouth... or your ears... audio goodness.

• Set Yourself on Fire: Stars
  
• Look at You Now: Simply Red
  
• Que Onda Guero: Beck
  
• I'd Rather Be the Devil: Canned Heat
  
• 40 Boys in 40 Nights: The Donnas
  
• Tell Her Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
  
• Temptation: New Order
  
• Untitled # 4: Persons
  
• Heygana: Ali Farka Toure
  
• HarbercOat: REM
  
• Maria Maria: Carlos Santana
  
• Tarzan Boy: Baltimora
  
• Misfit Kid: The Cars
  
• Kitty's Back: Bruce Springsteen
  
• Make Me Stay: Ani DiFranco
  
• Just Wanna Funk with Your Mind: Timbuk3
  
• Sir Duke: Stevie Wonder
  
• Valerie: Steve Winwood
  
• Devil in Your Heart: Six Cents and Natalie
  
• Temple de la Gloire: Rameau
  

  1. Ouverture, 2. Menuet-en-Musette, 3. Air tendre pour les Muses, 4. Chaconne et Suite de la Chaconne. These taken from the piece written in 1745 by Rameau (libretto by Voltaire) to celebrate the "victory" of Louis XV at the Battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745

  
  

Le bataille de Fontenoy: 11 mai, 1745

A few links about this historic event during the reign of Louis XV:

1. L'Internaute's Louis XV timeline (in French):
   http://www.linternaute.com/histoire/motcle/167/a/1/1/louis_xv.shtml
   
2. A brief description (in French) under "Comte d'Anteroche":
   http://www.herodote.net/citations/mots10.htm#Ante
   
3. A more detailed description (in poor English), including maps & stuff:
   http://users.skynet.be/letricorne/RecitFontenoy/recitag.html
   
4. Another Louis XV timeline (in French) from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs: link
   
5. Mike Kirby's description of the battle, with map & coordinates: link
   

C'est ça for now.

Makin' Candy setlist, 5/3/05

This show contains a Donnie Darko set and a 1988 set--details below...

• I Was a Fool: The Invaders
  
• Wooooog: Takako Minekawa
  
• Dishes: Pulp
  
• White Rabbit: The Cannanes
  
• She Means Everything to Me: Louis Philippe
  
• No Melody: Kleenex Girl Wonder
  
• Something Special (kinky remix): Cherry Orchard
  
• Banjos Prepare for Battle/Bluegrass Breakdown: Wayne Osborne & Itisi
  
• We Got The: Beastie Boys
  
• C'est la mer a boire: Les Negresses Vertes
  
• Coney Island, USA: Amy Correia
  
• Fatheriver: King Biscuit Time
  
• Loungin': Guru with Donald Byrd
  
• Tropicalia: Beck
  
• Bi-pet: Lali Puna
  
• Cigarette Blouse Rebellion: Pas/Cal
  Donnie Darko block (though the movie is set in 1988, only the INXS song was actually released in 1988. The others are from earlier in the 80s. I find 80s music evolves and changes (and often deteriorates) over the course of the decade, so to me creating a "1988" soundtrack with stuff from 1986, 1985, 1980 is kinda odd... but still cool of course.)
  
• Never Tear Us Apart: INXS
  
• Head Over Heels: Tears for Fears
  
• Notorious: Duran Duran
  
• Love Will Tear Us Apart: Joy Division
  1988 block (Just for extra reminders about what 1988 really sounded like, these next 4 tracks were hits that year.)
  
• Simply Irresistible: Robert Palmer
  
• What Have I Done to Deserve This: Pet Shop Boys
  
• Is This Love: Whitesnake
  
• Heave is a Place on Earth: Belinda Carlisle
  OK, end of 80s preaching. Back to makin' candy. Sweet!
  
• Hots on for Nowhere: Led Zeppelin
  
• Man of Constant Sorrow: Garcia, Grisman & Rice
  
• Carnation Lily Lily Rose: David Arkenstone with Andrew White
  
• Cloudy Sixth: Fort Dax
  

Pacific Rim Flava: noodle dishes

Main Dish idea: Bean threads with vegetables
Ingredients
bean thread noodles
Thai fish sauce
rice vinegar
tamari or soy sauce
spicy black bean paste
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce
tahini or almond butter
water
onion, chopped
ginger, chopped
vegetable oil
mushrooms, sliced
broccoli, sliced
chickpeas, small can
sesame seeds

Assemblage

1. Prepare bean threads by boiling them for 5 minutes. Drain and set aside.
   
2. Prepare sauce by stirring together all ingredients from "Thai fish sauce" to "tahini." Once they are well combined, add water and stir again to thin out the sauce (this may whiten the sauce a bit, do not be disturbed). Amounts needed are up to you depending on personal taste and amount of noodles used. I usually make about 3/4 cup sauce for 2 small packages of noodles.
   
3. Stir fry the onion and ginger in oil. When aromatic and starting to brown, add mushrooms, broccoli and chickpeas. Add a touch of water and cover all to steam-fry for about 5 minutes.
   
4. Stir in cooked noodles and sauce. Garnish with sesame seeds and serve!
   

Note: Of course, any kind of stirfry ingredients will do--other vegetables, tofu, sliced meat, fancy fungus... go for it!

Side Dish idea: Hemp-y Pasta
Ingredients
linguine (or other pasta of your choice)
tahini
hempini (hempseed butter)
tamari or soy sauce
spicy black bean paste
hoisin sauce
water

Assemblage

1. Prepare pasta (i.e., boil a bunch of water, cook the pasta in it for about 10 minutes, drain in a colander, add some olive oil to keep separate).
   
2. Make sauce by stirring together ingredients from "tahini" to "hoisin sauce." When blended, add water to liquefy sauce so it will pour. Amounts used depend on how saucy you like your noodles--I found that a good cup of sauce spread well over about 1.5 pounds of pasta.
   
3. Mix sauce with pasta and serve! Of course you can make the sauce in advance and just throw it right onto hot pasta for an easy side dish. This is probably pretty good cold, too.
   

Note: To keep with the hemp theme, I suggest garnishing with nutritious hempseed oil, which is very very very good for you. Check the refrigerator section at your local health food store. Nutiva and Living Harvest make very tasty oils.

Makin' Candy all-tape edition, 4/26/05

In 1989 I developed a mad crush on this guy in my dorm. In retrospect he turned out to be pretty much a total jerk, but in my first semester of college that sort of thing seemed really cool. Anyway, we had a co-ed dorm with an open-door policy (except on the "quiet floor") so people could just wander in & out of each other's rooms, and usually we'd get together to listen to & talk about music. This guy, who we'll call "Luke" brought over a tape he'd made from a friend's music collection. On the spine of the tape along with the title, he'd written in very earnest capital letters "ALL FROM CDs." This was also double-underlined. Even at the time I thought this was possibly the dorkiest thing I'd ever seen. I mean, it's a TAPE. The only reason to write something like that is to impress people (or perhaps yourself), either with your unprecedented access to someone's CDs or your careful notation of the fidelity issues that might arise from a CD-to-tape recording. Anyway, the phrase has stuck with me ever since. So now I present to you a show that is "ALL FROM TAPES." It's the cassette special of Makin' Candy!

Another note: using tapes after a long hiatus was actually a bit difficult. They are mysteriously double-sided, and in a tape player that plays in reverse with poorly marked buttons, I sometimes didn't know what side I was about to play. Also cueing is difficult because if you don't know every song by heart, it's hard to tell what track you're in the middle of when you just randomly press play. The show didn't all go smoothly, but it was jolly to hear some of this music again. Because dude, half my music collection is languishing on tape.

Another note: I got 6 stitches in my right ring finger last night, so my typing may be even worse than usual. For reals.

• Timeless Reunion: Emerald
  
• Standing in the Rain/Scott's Sinful Solo: Strictly Ballroom s/t
  
• Sister Havana: Urge Overkill
  
• Happy: PiL
  
• Jealousy: Liz Phair
  
• Cuts You Up: Peter Murphy
  
• Dive: Nirvana
  
• Heart of Glass: Blondie
  
• Fools Gold: The Stone Roses
  
• Sathington Waltz/Those Damn Blue-Collar Tweakers: Primus
  
• June: Camper van Beethoven
  
• This Corrosion: Sisters of Mercy
  
• 23 Minutes in Brussels: Luna
  
• Piece of Dirt: They Might be Giants
  
• Atom Tan: The Clash
  
• Ask: The Smiths
  
• Saved: SWANS
  
• Silverfuck: The Smashing Pumpkins
  
• Girl VII: St. Etienne
  
• Somebody Will: The Lost Dakotas
  
• Rainbow Man: The Pogues
  
• Bud the Spud: Stompin' Tom Connors
  
• The Weaker Soldier: Palace
  

Poetry Celebration, Makin' Candy 4/19/05

Second annual National Poetry Month edition of Makin' Candy. This year, besides having poets read their work (denoted by quotation marks and "by"), some musical interludes have been built in.

• Rickover's Dream: Christopher Hedges
  
• "Logan Heights and the World" by Juan Felipe Herrera
  
• "The Fine Printing on a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer" by Adrian Louis
  
• Levee Camp Blues: Fred McDowell
  
• "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" by Michael S. Harper
  
• "I Was Stolen by the Gypsies" by Charles Simic
  
• "Lester Leaps In" by Al Young
  
• "Prayer" by Joseph Bruchac
  
• Jersey Bounce: Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  
• "The Tent People of Beverley Hills" by James Ragan
  
• "Parsley" by Rita Dove
  
• The Losing End (You're On): Neil Young
  
• "Wild Gratitude" by Edward Hirsch
  
• "Waltz for Ma" by Johnny Griffin
  
• "My Sisters, O My Sisters" by May Sarton
  
• "Crossing Over" by William Meredith
  
• See Hunt & Liddy: Philip Woods Quartet
  
• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
  
• Driving Wheel: Robert Lockwood, Jr.
  
• "So & So Reclining on Her Couch" by Wallace Stevens
  
• "Birches" by Robert Frost
  
• "Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" by Ogden Nash
  
• Poor Boy: Howlin' Wolf
  
• "The River Bees" by W.S. Merwin
  
• "Diving Into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich
  
• "The Song of the Taste" by Gary Snyder
  
• "Learning About Easter & Passover" by Dan Jaffe
  
• Canada Geese: David & Mary Ellen Monroe
  
• "Tia Sophia" by Carmen Tafolla
  
• "Uh Oh Plutonium" by Anne Waldman
  
• Espana: Mantovani & His Orchestra
  
• "America" by Allen Ginsberg
  

yeah, the Ginsberg is my Favorite!!

Makin' Candy setlist, 4/12/05

Featuring some tracks off the latest "Little Darla Has a Treat for You" compilation--these marked with "*".

• Darts of Pleasure: Franz Ferdinand
  
• Batteries (can't help me now): Figurine
  
• Mr. Jones: Talking Heads
  
• Escaping the Game Grid: Technicolor
  
• Out of Myself: Arco
  
• Steppenwolf: Boney M
  
• Lost Love: Lost Souls
  
• Revelation: Santana
  
• Mind Riot: Soundgarden
  
• New Moon on Monday: Duran Duran
  
• Jive Talkin': Bee Gees (Saturday Night Fever s/t)
  
• American Boy: Juliette & the Licks
  
• Cha Cha Loco: Joe Jackson
  
• Set Yourself on Fire: Stars
  
• Mr. Sun: The Lettermen
  
• Flat Lay the Water: The Sea & Cake
  
• The Joy Circuit: Gary Numan
  
• *Love & Music: Piano Magic
  
• *Midnight at the Underground: Baskervilles
  
• *Como Campana: Superaquello
  
• *Twin Evil Stars: Dead Cowboys
  
• *Little Songs About Raindrops: Lullatone
  
• *Nothing to Lose: Isabelle Antena
  
• Electric Light: PJ Harvey
  
• Green of the Melon: Ui
  
• Sylvester (New Year's Day Remix): Wechsel Garland
  

Superfresh Meal in a Bowl: Udon Soup

I've been working on this recipe for weeks. The addition of miso seems to be an excellent finishing flavorful touch, but I'll probably keep experimenting, too.

Ingredients
1 package udon noodles (I like the brown rice kind)
1 box of broth (or mix up water with bouillon)
1 onion, sliced into strips
seaweed (for example, wakame and kelp)
dried mushrooms (for example, tree ears and shiitake)
vegetables, sliced or chopped (use many kinds! bok choy, sliced cabbage, daikon, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, celery, kale, asparagus, green pepper, etc.)
ginger (either fresh chopped or powdered)
olive oil or canola oil
tamari
miso
sesame oil
sesame seeds
optional: spicy black bean paste, sliced scallions, chopped parsley, cubed tofu, sliced cooked meat

Assembly
1. Place the seaweed and dried mushrooms in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Let sit for about 10 minutes while you move on to #2.
2. Prepare vegetables and set aside. If you are quite orderly, you could keep the onions and ginger separate, as they will be used first.
3. Put a large pot of water on to boil (for the pasta).
4. Cut up the mushrooms and seaweed and set aside. Save the water if it doesn’t look too sandy or dirty.
5. When the water is boiling, put the udon in. Check the package to see how long to cook it, usually about 7-10 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, heat olive or canola oil in a large skillet or pot and start sautéing the onions and ginger. When they have started to get a bit browned, throw in some or all of the vegetables and stir-fry these a bit too. Before they start to lose crunch, add the broth, seaweed water and any remaining vegetables and bring everything to a simmer. (The amount of broth to use depends how watery you like your soup—I generally just add enough broth to cover the vegetables, and then throw in more later if needed.)
7. Meanwhile, when the pasta is done, drain it in a colander. I like to stir in some oil so it can sit for a bit without sticking while I finish the rest of the soup.
8. When the soup is boiling, throw in some tamari as well as the chopped seaweed and mushrooms. I also like to add a small spoonful of spicy black bean paste which makes everything slightly and mysteriously piquant. If you’re using tofu or other protein, add that now too.
9. Finally, mix in the cooked udon. Stir soup together until heated through.
10. To serve, put a spoonful of miso in a bowl and mash it together with a few tablespoons of the liquid soup. When thoroughly combined, fill the bowl with soup and garnish with sesame oil and sesame seeds. A sprinkling of scallions or parsley is a nice finishing touch. Serve! (I find I need both a spoon and a fork to eat this. It’s really filling.)

Note: If possible, try to do steps 6-10 very quickly so that the vegetables stay fresh and a bit al dente. One shortcut might be to heat the broth separately so that once you add it, the noodles can go in right away and you’re pretty much ready to eat.

Linques

I've started reading The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville and am finding it really excellent. Well, the first 3 chapters at least. Maybe I'll post some chunks here. For now, some links to possibly interesting ancien regime & XVIIIe siecle sites:

1. Nobility & Titles in France from heraldica.org: http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/noblesse.htm
   
2. Very basic and slightly bizarre recap of French nobility: http://www.baronage.co.uk/2001/french-1.html
   
3. article on "Power and Politics in Old Regime France & The Ancien Regime" from History Today: link
   
4. Dr. Lovett's easy bullet points of French history: http://www.esuhistoryprof.com/france_and_the_old_regime.htm
   
5. "Early Modern Europe" lecture notes, Nipissing Univ: http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/2155/revcause.htm
   
6. analysis of "Dangerous Liaisons" film, with links: http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150dangerous.htm
   
7. e-text for "The Ancient Regime," by Hippolyte A. Taine: http://www.arthurwendover.com/arthurs/history/01ocf10.html
   
8. Brief summary called "Crisis of the Monarchy: http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/REV/CRISIS.HTM
   
9. Links to 18th century French writings, in French: http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.18.html
   
10. Late 17th century history from the Salacious Historian: http://www.kipar.org/historical-resources/history.html
    
11. Hyperhistory timeline: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
    

Makin' Candy once again, 4/5/05

This was a great show until the crazy screams of the Serge Gainsbourg cover threw me off. No matter, it's easy to recover with "Fancy Dancer" at your fingertips.

• Guns of Navarone: The Specials
  
• Wave of Mutilation: The Pixies
  
• Happy Hour: The Housemartins
  
• Cosmic Slop: Funkadelic
  
• Rattlesnakes: Lloyd Cole
  
• Dream World: Midnight Oil
  
• My Radio (FM Mix): Stars
  
• So Cold the Night: The Communards
  
• Digital: Joy Division
  
• 867-5309/Jenny: Tommy Tutone
  
• As Good As New: Abba
  
• You've Got a Crush on Me: The Donnas
  
• Loverboy: Billy Ocean
  
• Single Girl Summer Home: Land of the Loops
  
• Love on the Beat (Serge Gainsbourg cover): Krikor & W.A.R.R.I.O.
  
• Reptilia: The Strokes
  
• Train in Vain: The Clash
  
• Fancy Dancer: The Commodores
  
• Wink that Eye: A Boy Named Thor
  
• New Rock: Buffalo Daughter
  
• Grease: Franki Valli
  
• Justified & Ancient: The KLF with Miss Tammy Wynette
  
• It Must Be Love: Madness
  
• I've Got a Feeling: Jimmy Ryan
  
• Hijinx: Heart
  
• Non non rien n'a change: Poppys
  
• Work It: Missy Elliott
  
• Oh Sherrie: Steve Perry
  
• So What's New: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
  
• Fun Food Factory: Lollipop Factory
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 3/29/04

Pulling it together at the last minute--and I LIKE it! Some petits fours for the ears.

• Games Without Frontiers: Peter Gabriel
  
• Ritual: Charming
  
• Telephone Book: Violent Femmes
  
• Green Earrings: Steely Dan
  
• King of the Kerb: Echobelly
  
• Blue Jean: David Bowie
  
• Best Friend: The Beat
  
• Let the Music Play: Shannon
  
• Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him: John Lennon & Yoko Ono
  
• Live With Me: The Rolling Stones
  
• Reunion: Stars
  
• Did I Hear You Say You Love Me: Stevie Wonder
  
• Falling Down: Toad the Wet Sprocket
  
• New Sound in Town: Roots Radics
  
• Highwire Days: Psychedelic Furs
  
• Crawlspace: Beastie Boys
  
• Love Is the Drug: Grace Jones
  
• Morder: Rockformation Diskokugel
  
• Chakra Khan: Bombay 2--Electric Vindaloo
  
• Here Comes My Baby: Cat Stevens (Rushmore s/t)
  
• Lakeville: Amy Correia
  
• Seasons of Wither: Aerosmith
  
• This Flat Earth: Thomas Dolby
  
• Camilla: The Art of Noise
  
• Sunrise, Grand Canyon Suite: Tomita does Grofe
  
• Prayer for St. Gregory: Alan Hovhaness
  

Tribute to Bobby Short, Makin' Candy 3/22/05

Bobby Short, elegant cabaret singer extraordinaire, 9/15/24-3/21/05.

• Three to Get Ready: Dave Brubeck Quartet (just to get ready)
  Bobby Short sings Cole Porter--a delovely combination
  
• So Near and Yet So Far
  
• Rap Tap on Wood
  
• Do I Love You
  
• You've Got that Thing
  
• Let's Fly Away
  
• Pilot Me (French lyrics by Rene Pujol)
  
• Can Can
  
• Katie Went to Haiti
  
• Weren't We Fools
  
• C'est Magnifique
  
• How's Your Romance
  
• I've Got You on My Mind
  
• Hot House Rose
  
• I Hate You Darling
  
• At Long Last Love
  
• I'm in Love Again
  
• I Concentrate on You
  
• You're the Top
  
• Just One of Those Things
  
• You Don't Know Paree
  
• Why Don't We Try Staying Home
  
• How Could We Be Wrong
  
• You Do Something to Me
  
• You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
  
• What is This Thing Called Love
  
• By Candlelight
  
• Why Shouldn't I
  
• In the Still of the Night
  

The Ides of Makin' Candy, 3/15/05

Last-minute but excellent tracks from the stacks...

• Cote des Neiges: Stars
  
• Deep #8: Nice Nice
  
• Swimming to the Other Side: The Amidons
  
• Skokian: Tyrone Downie
  
• The Machine is Edible, Not Digestible: Kevin Brennan
  
• Cats Claws: Justin Case
  
• Calistan: Frank Black
  
• I Want that Man: Deborah Harry
  
• When Doves Cry: Prince
  
• Standards: The Jam
  
• Spellbound: Siouxsie & the Banshees
  
• What Do I Do Now: Sleeper
  
• Rasputin: Boney M
  
• Shame, Shame, Shame: Bryan Ferry
  
• Up the Hill Backwards: David Bowie
  
• Slow Emotion Replay: The The
  
• Precious: The Pretenders
  
• Mess: Ben Folds Five
  
• Been So Long: St. Etienne
  
• Why Didn't My Parents Buy me a Casio?: Micromars
  
• Cemetry Gates: The Smiths
  
• Makes No Sense: Husker Du
  
• Feeling Sad & Lonely: Bush
  
• 1979: Smashing Pumpkins
  
• Riding: Thick Pigeon
  
• Keeping Track of Time: Club 8
  
• Handle with Care: Traveling Wilburys
  
• In Limbo: Radiohead
  
• Springtime: Able
  
• Her Mellowness: Orange Cake Mix
  
• Follow the Sound: Mascott
  
• Meditation: Sinatra & Jobim
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 3/8/05

Cracklin' sweet. 3 tracks are sung by movie stars.

• Warm Tears: Alsace
  
• Comin' Around: Juliette and the Licks
  
• You'd Better Get Yourself Together, Baby: Gigolo Aunts
• IMpossible: Figurine
  
• Hotwax: Beck
  
• roamin' round: Supersuckers
  
• Ballad of Maxwell Demon: Shudder to Think (Velvet Goldmine s/t)
  
• I've Got the Password to Your Shell Account: Barcelona
  
• Clip Clap: Kahimi Karie
  
• Vari-Speed: hollAnd
  
• Daniel: Elton John
  
• Sure Shot: Beastie Boys
  
• Wild About You: Worryin' Kind
  
• Boxes of Tide: Wilma
  
• Hey, I'm Gonna Be Your Girl: The Donnas
  
• Ideal Woman: William Shatner
  
• A New Career in a New Town: David Bowie
  
• Coming Back: Kleenex Girl Wonder
  
• Bi-pet: Lali Puna
  
• La Cucaracha: Kumbia Kings
  
• The Dark of the Matinee: Franz Ferdinand
  
• Gleason Rocket: Godzuki
  
• Want More: Bob Marley
  
• She: The Sundays
  
• I'd Be So Pleased: The Hi Fives
  
• Blue Eyed Pop: The Sugar Cubes
  
• Kiss Me Only with Your Eyes: Future Bible Heroes
  
• Walk it Down: Talking Heads
  
• OK pour plus jamais: Isabelle Adjani
  
• bbvu (give me give me): 800 cherries
  
• Pachysandra/Sunday Driver: Gordon Stone
  
• St. Elmo's Fire (Snow): Uilab
  
• Keito: Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder
  

A trend of no patterns

I like to sew my own clothes, but I'm no tailor. Just like I can't play the piano without sheet music, I need a sewing pattern if I want to make anything wearable. But WHERE are the cool patterns? I apologize for naming names but companies like McCall & Butterick seem to generally come up with soccer-mom type clothes that are just not the fresh & fly fashions I'm looking for. I'm seeking stuff that's kind of out there, super-chic, unique and yet still a regular sewing pattern in regular sizes with regular directions.

So far the best big commercial companies seem to be Vogue and Burda. I like Vogue patterns because some of them (especially the vintage stuff) have a lot of nice detail like pockets and linings, etc. Burda is European and so not your average JC Penney's outfits--they're a little wacky.

But what else? Is there some enterprising Bust reader out there who's started her own company producing bitchin' brand-new/retro clothing patterns? Cuz there should be. I'll keep looking into it and post any findings here.

Another outlet seems to be vintage patterns. For example, Groovy Juice has some pages of "Women's 70s Patterns" for sale. I also saw some authentic-looking 70s patterns at Deb's Recycled Sewing Patterns. An online store called Mrs. Cleaver's Kitchen has retro patterns for a tunic and pants, palazzo pants & maxi skirt, and a peasant blouse & apron. (This site is worth checking out just for the bizarre descriptions of when June Cleaver would wear each item.)

You may have noticed I appear to love the 70s. That's because those are the sunny bicentennial days of my childhood. From my point of view, everything was good and nice in the 70s. So now I'm hoping 70s fashion can take me back... way back.

Linkin Up

Some links & info that people have sent me or that I've found. Posting here for safekeeping.

www.freecycle.org: How to give stuff to others instead of just junking it
www.michalapetri.com: Michala Petri, recorder virtuoso. I am going through a phase of wishing I myself was a recorder virtuoso, so Michala is my idol.
casio wk-3000: I played one of these recently--76 key electronic keyboard. Saving my pennies now.
surprising quote: According to this USC site, "Dr. Appleby is also completing his research on methamphetamine use and risky sex among men who have sex with men as part of a state funded grant."
Charivari: Not bad musical group. Keyword: Jupiter
Alan Hovhaness: Composer I've never heard of before... now seeking Hovhaness works.
Keeping cats indoors: Just amassing info to support an ongoing household debate about whether our beloved cats should be allowed out into a world of cars, fences, fisher cats, and Log knows what else.

Justified & Ancient Grains: Quinoa Salad

Here's an easy quinoa thing I invented.

Ingredients
2 cups water
1 cup quinoa, rinsed well
juice of 1 lemon
olive oil
kalamata olives, stoned (I mean take the pits out)
1 T capers (or more if you love capers)
handful of parsley, chopped
1 small can great northern beans
1 red onion, chopped fine
1 red pepper (either a fresh one or pre-roasted type)
oil & vinegar dressing (homemade or commercial)

Assembly
Boil the water in a saucepan and add quinoa. Cover, turn the heat down to medium (or whatever is a good simmer heat on your stove) and cook for 20 minutes. Check for doneness (all water should be absorbed) and cook a bit more if needed. Once quinoa is done, pour the lemon juice over it while still hot, and stir in some olive oil. Let cool.

Prepare the rest of the ingredients by combining the olives, capers, parsley, beans and onion in a large bowl. If you are using pre-roasted red pepper, slice it up and add that too (pimentos will also do). If you're starting with a fresh pepper, roast it up first. I like to do this by cutting the pepper in half and coring it, then sticking it in the toaster oven at about 400˚ until the skin starts to really blacken and even puff up a bit. (May take about 20 minutes, may also need to crank the heat.) Once the pepper is looking roasted, pop the pieces in a brown paper bag for 5 minutes while it cools. (There is some kitchen wisdom that this will make it easier to peel.) Then, carefully scrape the skin from the flesh with a knife. Do not yield to the temptation to rinse the burnt pieces of skin off the pepper, as you will also be washing away flavor. Just take your time and scrape everything off. Then chop & add to the bowl.

Finally, dump the cooled quinoa in the bowl and mix everything together. Season the salad with your favorite combo of oil & vinegar dressing. Add salt & pepper to taste. This is a refreshing summer side-dish, an easy potluck choice, or a nice pre-made lunch to take to work.

Optional: If you'll be eating this soon, adding some chopped cucumber can also be yummy. (But after a day or two the cucumber will begin to deliquesce in a disturbing way, so don't wait to consume!)

Makin' Candy loves HST, 2/22/05

This show dedicated to Hunter S. Thompson, one of my heroes. Not sure if he'd actually LIKE this music, but I just must shout out somehow. Cheers, Doc.

• Dance of Death: John Fahey (Zabriskie Point s/t)
  
• Heart Beat, Big Meat: Pink Floyd (Zabriskie Point s/t)
  
• Summertime: Janis Joplin
  
• Drug Test: Yo La Tengo
  
• What is Life: George Harrison
  
• Well All Right: Blind Faith
  
• Jiving Sister Fanny: Rolling Stones
  
• Wild Bill Jones: Bad Livers
  
• Clampdown: The Clash
  
• Jesus Built My Hotrod: Ministry
  
• It Was (Wars of Armageddon): Tal Ross
  
• Wheels: Flying Burrito Brothers
  
• Coconut Boogaloo: Martin Medeski & Wood
  
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: The Carter Family
  
• Wild Tyme: Jefferson Airplane
  
• Girl from the North Country: Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash
  
• Slick Tricks & Bright Lights: Archers of Loaf
  
• Marijuana Cigarette: Cat Mother
  
• 5D (Fifth Dimension): The Byrds
  
• "Fear & Loathing" clip: Johnny Depp
  
• Expecting to Fly: Buffalo Springfield
  
• Golden Hours: Brian Eno
  
• Mushroom Clouds: Love
  
• To Lay Me Down: Jerry Garcia
  
• [unknown]: Johnny Cash
  
• Story of My Life: Velvet Underground
  
• Salt of the Earth: Rolling Stones
  
• A Simple Desultory Phillipic (or How I wsa Robert McNamara'd into Submission): Simon & Garfunkel
  
• Moanin' at Midnight: Howlin' Wolf
  
• Crumblin' Land: Pink Floyd (Zabriskie Point s/t)
  

Of Lambs & Nightshades: Moussaka

I modified a Frugal Gourmet recipe for moussaka, a Greek culinary classic, to come up with something a little faster, although there is still some whisking involved.

Ingredients:
1/2 pound ground lamb
1 onion, chopped
chopped parsley
dash cinnamon
1 t oregano
1/2 c. red wine
1+ cup tomato sauce (any kind will do)
parmesan cheese
1 eggplant
salt
olive oil
2 eggs
1 T butter
1 T flour
1 c milk
dash nutmeg

Assemble ingredients as follows
In a saucepan, saute onion in some olive oil until glassy. Add ground lamb, parsley, cinnamon and oregano and brown together. Then add red wine to deglaze (i.e. help dissolve any delicious crud from bottom of pan). Add tomato sauce and cook together on low heat for at least half an hour (try a heat diffuser underneath to avoid burning). Towards end of cooking, add a generous handful of parmesan cheese and mix together.

Meanwhile, wash the eggplant (don't peel it) and slice it in 1/4-inch disks. Arrange them in layers in a colander and sprinkle salt over each layer. Leave in the sink for half an hour or more. Heat oven to 425˚. Rinse the slices and dry them with a cloth towel (paper towels are OK if you have a lot of them). Place slices on an oiled cookie sheet and bake in oven for about 15 minutes per side, or until tender and somewhat browned. Set aside and turn oven down to 350˚.

With meat sauce & eggplant slices in a warm holding pattern, start the topping by melting the butter in a saucepan and whisking it together with the flour once melted. It should form a crumbly paste. Then pour in the milk a little at a time and whisk together (this bit-by-bit method helps avoid lumps). Cook until mixture has somewhat thickened. Add dash of nutmeg, salt, and handful of parmesan cheese, and stir in. In a separate bowl, beat together 2 eggs. Take milk mixture off heat and pour a bit into the eggs (not too much at once, or the eggs might scramble in the bowl). Beat together. Then, pour egg mixture into milk mixture and return to heat. Here's where you need to have a steady whisking hand for about 10 minutes. The idea is to cook the topping until it becomes nice and thick (almost like frosting), but not clumpy or overcooked. You may want to remove the pan from the heat periodically as you whisk, to avoid overheating the bottom too much. One chef's trick for testing doneness is to try to drizzle some of the mixture off the end of the whisk onto the surface of the rest of the mixture. When you notice that the drizzle sits on the surface for a moment before disappearing, you're getting close. The mixture should become smooth and paste-y in a few minutes. Take it off the heat.

Now it's time to put everything together. Divide the eggplant slices in half and place half in the bottom of a glass baking dish (a 9x9 square or 8x10 rectangle are good approximate sizes). Pour all of meat sauce over the eggplant, then layer on the rest of the eggplant slices. Pour the topping over the top layer and smooth it out with a rubber spatula. Sprinkle top with more parmesan cheese. Put in the oven for 45-60 minutes, or until the top is browned and the lower layers are happily bubbling. Cut as if lasagna and serve!

Makin' Love Candy, 2/15/05

Be they passionate, bizarre, mournful, noisy, cute, songs about love are frickin' everywhere. Here's a slice, home-slice.

• My Love Is You: David Byrne
  
• Love Hurts (but Not That Much): Didi & Dexter
  
• I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby: Barry White
  
• Looking for Love: The Cars
  
• Love Thing: Spice Girls
  
• Lifted by Love: kd lang
  
• Sentimental Love: The Elevator Drops
  
• Will to Love: Neil Young & Crazy Horse
  
• I Don't Want Your Love: Duran Duran
  
• What the Snowman Learned About Love: Stars
  
• Modern Love: David Bowie
  
• I Love You: King Biscuit Time
  
• It's Love: You Bet!
  
• What is Love?: Howard Jones
  
• Love Is: Amy Correia
  
• I Dig Love: George Harrison
  
• Some Kinda Love: Velvet Underground
  
• With My Love: The Shades
  
• True Love Travels on a Gravel Road: The Afghan Whigs
  
• Fools in Love: Joe Jackson
  
• Easy to Love: Harry Connick, Jr.
  
• 10 Commandments of Love: Bob Marley & the Wailers
  
• I'm in Love Again: Bobby Short
  
• Love is Teasin': The Chieftains with Marianne Faithfull
  
• We Laughed at Love: Anita O'Day
  
• (I Love You) for Sentimental Reasons: Nat "King" Cole Trio
  
• You Are Love: Frank Sinatra
  
• True Love: Dean Martin
  

Great 80's! Makin' Candy 2/8/05

One of my favorite themes this week, the eighties, helped along by some new $1 albums from the discount rack. (Can you believe Corey Hart's "First Offense" for just a buck?)

• 1984: Van Halen
  
• Sunglasses at Night: Corey Hart
  
• 2 Tribes: Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
• I Go Crazy: Flesh for Lulu
  
• Sledgehammer: Peter Gabriel
  
• Kiss Me Deadly: Lita Ford
  
• Only You & I: Psychedelic Furs
  
• Cool it Now: New Edition
  
• Vienna Calling: Falco
  
• New Song: Howard Jones
  
• They Don't Know: Tracy Ullman
  
• Rebel Yell: Billy Idol
  
• Mickey: Toni Basil
  
• I Feel For You: Chaka Kahn
  
• Destination Unknown: Missing Persons
  
• Breakdancin': Irene Cara
  
• Our Lips are Sealed: Go Go's
  
• Miami Vice: Jan Hammer
  
• Axel F: Harold Faltermeier
  
• Opening Theme: Crocodile Dundee s/t
  
• Gold: Spandau Ballet
  
• My Bag: Lloyd Cole
  
• The Limits We Set: The Beat
  Here follows a Makin' Candy patented cool-down, chill-out period
  
• Extrication Love Song: Hot Tuna
  
• More than This: Roxy Music
  
• Oh to Be in Love: Kate Bush
  
• Still Crazy After All these Years: Paul Simon
  
• Here We Go Again: Ray Charles
  
• The River of No Return: Marilyn Monroe
  

Makin' Candy, 2/1/05

In honor of the start of Black History Month, music with lots of soul.

• St. Thomas: Sonny Rollins
  
• Feelin' Good: Tal Ross
  
• I am that I am: Peter Tosh
  
• Keep Your Worries: Guru feat. Angie Stone
  
• Love or Confusion: Jimi Hendrix
  
• Freak of the Week: Funkadelic
  
• Sai: Kanda Bongo Man
  
• Hold Everything: Robert Lockwood, Jr.
  
• Superfly: Curtis Mayfield
  
• Beautiful Woman: Toots & the Maytals
  
• Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll): Funkadelic
  
• Love of My Life: Erykah Badu
  
• Too High: Stevie Wonder
  
• Heygana: Ali Farka Toure
  
• (All I Wanna Do Is) Lay Around and Love on You: Ray Charles
  
• My Mind is Ramblin': Howling Wolf
  
• Yield Not to Tempatation: Aretha Franklin
  
• You're A Sweetheart: Dinah Washington
  
• Dancing Shoes: Bob Marley & the Wailers
  
• Mhondoro: Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited
  
• Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans: Billie Holiday
  
• Confession: Shirley Horn
  
• Dream a Little Dream: Ella & Basie
  
• 13 (Death March): Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery
  
• Warm Valley: Johnny Hodges
  
• My Song: Hadda Brooks
  
• Early Ev'ry Midnite: Roberta Flack
  

Makin' Candy, the Haggis edition 1/25/05

It's Robbie Burns' birthday again and this show is a celebration of all things Scottish, including some tunes and poems from the great bard himself. A recipe for haggis was also given out.

• Doin' Quite Alright: Spirit of the West
  
• Bagpipe Tunes from the Northeast of Scotland
  
• The Stool of Repentance/The Nuptial Knot: Thistledown
  
• Roamin' in the Gloamin': Sir Harry Lauder
  
• Flowers of Edinburth: The Berkeley Scottish Players
  
• Looly, Looly: Archie Fisher
  
• Comin' Thru the Rye (song) /Gone are the Joys of the Morning (song) /To a Mousie (poem): Robbie Burns
  
• The First House in Connaught/The Copper Plate Reel: played on the Uilleann pipes
  
• French Lessons: Metrovavan
  
• I Think I'm Paranoid: Garbage
  
• Envoys: Life without Buildings
  
• Pandora: The Cocteau Twins
  
• Regrets: Eurythmics
  
• Favour: The Wake
  
• 1000 Stars: Big Country
  
• Ghost Rider: Paul Haig
  A small whisky set follows...
  
• Jigging Medley: The Rankin Family
  
• What's the Use of Getting Sober: Joe Jackson
  
• Athens Queen: Stan Rogers
  
• Winter Whisky: The Gloucester Hornpipe & Clog Society
  
• Hills of Glenshee: Shenandoah
  
• Silver Tassie: McBain's Scottish Dance Band
  
• Medley Selection: Macnish Distillery Pipe Band
  
• The Haggis: Capercaillie
  

Where the Candy is Blue, Makin' Candy 1/18/05

This show turned out to be a bluegrass, folk & mountain music special, with a few other things thrown in for good measure.

• You Don't Love God if You Don't Love Your Neighbor: Rhonda Vincent
  
• Dialog Box: David Byrne
  
• We Can Be Together: Jefferson Airplane (Spencer Dryden tribute)
  
• My Daddy Played the Fiddle (Like I Don't)/Golden Slippers: Joel Mabus
  
• Yo Se de Una Mujer: Barbarito Diaz
  
• High Germany: Margaret Christl
  
• A Great Big Sea: Bram Morrison
  
• Careless Love: John Koerner
  
• How Mountain Girls Can Love: New River Boys
  
• Duncan: Paul Simon
  
• A Guelder Rose on the Hill (Russian folk song): Anatoly Poletayev (bayan)
  
• The Lass Doon on the Quay: High Level Ranters
  
• Rocky Road: from the Red Herring Coffee House Fall Folk Festival, Urbana, IL 1969
  
• The Thrill is Gone: Grateful Dawg s/t
  
• Lickered Up; The Danville Junction Boys
  
• Song for David: Rosalie Sorrels
  
• The Deck of Cards: The Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society
  
• The Mountain: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
  
• Hard Hearted: Bottle Hill
  
• The First Time: Cilla Fisher & Artie Tresize
  
• Bank Robber: Hot Tuna
  
• Bittersweet & Blue: Paul Penfield
  
• Old Blues: Guy & Joe
  
• Man of Constant Sorrow: Tony Furtado feat. Tim O'Brien
  
• Truck Driving Woman: Si Kahn
  
• New Boots: Mark Henley
  
• Little Cabin: Donnelly & Gerardi
  
• Pretty Boy Floyd: Arlo Guthrie
  
• Sledd Ridin': Mike Aldridge & "Old Dog"
  
• Owl Feather: John Hartford with Mike Compton
  
• Reels: Boy in the Gap/The Banshee/Music in the Glen: Barde
  
• Going Home: Jane Voss
  

Makin' Candy, 1/11/05

Just throwin' together a little of excellent everything in the sweet mix.

• Union of the Snake: Duran Duran
  
• batteries (can't help me now): Figurine
  
• Il ne Rentre pas ce Soir: Eddy Mitchell
  
• Just What I Needed: The Cars
  
• Minority: Green Day
  
• Secrets: Mission of Burma
  
• Black Steel: Tricky
  
• Mixed Bizness (remix, DJ Me DJ You): Beck
  
• Ah Ndiya: Oumou Sangau
  
• Less Cities More Moving People: The Fixx
  
• Padidadidub: Armchair
  
• Mandalay Cow: Maria Napoleon
  
• Elusive Time: Celeste
  
• Chal Chameli Bagh: Krodhi s/t
  
• Harry Lime Theme (Third Man s/t): Toni Sulzbock (zither)
  
• 74th Highlander's Quickstep/ The Barren Rocks of Aden: Thistledown
  
• I Knew You Would Go: Aden
  
• Mambo Guajiro: Rene Touzet (Bottle Rocket s/t)
  
• Jazz in the Present Tense: The Solsonics
  
• Fee: Phish
  
• Midnight Poppies/Crooked Birds: Medeski Martin & Wood
  
• This World (is Closing in On Me): Chris Carpenter
  
• Quiet Nights & Quiet Stars: Sinatra & Jobim
  
• Patchwork Quilt: Tom Baehr (standard dulcimer)
  
• Snow on High Ground: Nightnoise
  
• An Uncommonly Fine Life: Joaquin Leviano
  
• Edge of Memory: Dreamchaser
  
• Andante from the "Trout" Quintet: Schubert
  

Makin' Candy again! 1/4/05

All Professor Kitty's favorites on a special day.

• Crawlspace: The Beastie Boys
  
• Here Comes Your Man: The Pixies
  
• I Walk the Earth: King Biscuit Time
  
• I Wanna Be A Cowboy: Boys Don't Cry
  
• Hyperballad: Bjork
  
• Rudie Can't Fail: The Clash
  
• Little Bones: The Tragically Hip
  
• Why I Write Such Good Songs: Kleenex Girl Wonder
  
• The Only Man in Town: Moose
  
• Beds are Burning: Midnight Oil
  
• Trying Your Luck: The Strokes
  
• Jacking the Ball: The Sea & Cake
  
• Mirror in the Bathroom: English Beat
  
• Panda Riot: Our Hour
  
• I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Robert Palmer
  
• Love Crown: Godzuki
  
• Electric Avenue: Eddie Grant
  
• Terror: Stockholm Monsters
  
• No Rain: Blind Melon
  
• Saint Behind the Glass: Los Lobos
  
• My Radio (AM Mix): Stars
  
• Cross Bones Style: Cat Power
  
• If You Want Me To Stay: Red Hot Chili Peppers
  
• Some Girls are Bigger than Others: The Smiths
  
• This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody): Talking Heads
  
• Daily Sisyphus: Paloma
  
• Primary: The Cure
  
• The Casio Fight Song: David Shouse & the Bloodthirsty Lovers
  
• Foram Koten: hollAnd
  

Bookstore Gift Certificates are the Bomb

Spent some time yesterday in a local bookstore looking for the best way to spend a $50 gift certificate. (First rule of gift certificates: must spend right away.) Here's what I ended up with:

Llewellyn's 2005 Herbal Almanac

What sold me on this one was the "Herbs for Beauty" section that includes recipes for making your own shampoo, moisturizers, scrubs, plus a chapter on growing your own loofahs. Of COURSE I want to grow my own loofahs, thank you!

The Natural Remedy Bible, revised & updated, by Michael Tierra and John Lust

This is a fat little mass market in which you can look up ailments like "aging," "hepatitis," and "sweating hands" and find info on symptoms, causes & treatments. Also has chapters on diet & exercise, 20 popular herbs, and hydrotherapy.

Wintersigns in the Snow and Springsigns, both by Gerald Cox

These are 2 adorable little books for people who like to run around in the woods and observe tree silhouettes, animal tracks, and bird behavior. They're full of drawings and the text is handwritten so it seems like you're reading somebody else's personal nature notes. Cutie!

Putting Food By, 4th edition, newly revised, by Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg & Beatrice Vaughan

This is a classic first published by the Stephen Greene Press in 1973. I have a theory that next summer I'm going to have a garden full of vegetables (besides loofahs) that I'll can, freeze & dry for winter use, like a truly sustainable Vermonter. I read the first couple chapters and these people are SERIOUS about getting things thoroughly sterilized, using only the best and cleanest ingredients, and making sure every step of the process is done correctly and hygienically. Otherwise, you could die from botulism. Ack!