Twitter Creek gardens Archives - Julia O'Malley An Alaska Life: Culture + Travel + Food + Home Mon, 11 May 2015 23:04:07 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.juliaomalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-F3M65KGL7FCHTGCODU4PHLUTSM-32x32.jpeg Twitter Creek gardens Archives - Julia O'Malley 32 32 Project chickens: Where my peeps at? https://www.juliaomalley.com/2015/05/11/project-chickens-where-my-peeps-at/ Mon, 11 May 2015 23:04:07 +0000 http://juliaomalley.media/?p=1804 Our wee chicks on video!

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]]> Good news, page views and thank yous! https://www.juliaomalley.com/2015/03/25/good-news-and-thank-yous/ https://www.juliaomalley.com/2015/03/25/good-news-and-thank-yous/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:44:18 +0000 http://juliaomalley.media/?p=1633 I'm really excited to announce that my site, which launched at the end of November, has now been viewed 100,000 times! Thanks, friends, for supporting my experiment!

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I was also surprised yesterday with the news that this story about Sara’s farmer cousin Emily and the Homer food scene was nominated for a James Beard Award, which is like the Oscars of food writing. There’s a big dinner in New York City in a month when the winners are announced. I don’t know how I’m going to get there, but I plan to try!

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From Eater: “Eating well at the end of the road”

Emily Garrity only had to shoot one pig before she figured out that the best way to kill them was publicly, in front of all the other pigs at the trough. I thought it sounded barbaric on the face of it but, she told me later, it’s actually not so bad.

 In the beginning, when she was teaching herself to slaughter and butcher, she sequestered the animal before delivering a bullet to its brain. She thought it would be more respectful to let it face its end privately. Plus, there were the feelings of the other pigs to consider. What would it do to them to see one of their own go out by gunshot?

It turned out that being alone with the doomed animal just made both Emily and the pig nervous, like an awkward first date with a homicidal conclusion. And, they say, adrenaline isn’t good for the meat… Read more here.

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