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Donate to Playgrounds for Palestine
A Palestinian-American woman, Susan Abulhawa, started a foundation to buy playground equipment, at discount, in the U.S. which she then ships, via Israel, to Palestinian villages in Gaza and the West Bank. Living conditions in those areas are very very very hard and often the kids have nothing to do after school (if they even can get to school through the roadblocks and walls and barriers that Israel has set up to make Palestinian lives as miserable as they can). So far Susie has installed about 8 playgrounds and plans to install two more this spring. She hires local residents to assemble the playground equipment. They then assume responsibility for maintaining it. They plant flowers around the playground, keep it in good order, and take great pride in it. Go to www.PlaygroundsforPalestine.org. (I am Jewish.) On Umbra on green donations posted 1 year, 10 months ago 21 Responses
re-using an old fur coat
I used to have a fur coat. When I grew up, I gave it to a relative who lives in a much colder climate where she is very grateful to have it (but she didn't buy it for herself). I could not condone anyone's buying a new fur coat, but it seems absurd not to make use of one from animals whose suffering dates to long before anti-fur consciousness became widespread. Renouncing the use of the coat as a source of warmth makes no sense to me. Don't we urge recycling?
Maybe the Canadian could turn the old fur coat into the lining of a silk (is silk from silkworms pc?) or Polartec (old pop bottles put to a better use) coat. Or just wear it under a cape so people don't notice. But face it, in very cold climates nothing warms like fur. What should Inuit wear?
Giving old furs to the homeless or for animal rehab are great ideas! On Umbra on (inherited) fur coats posted 1 year, 10 months ago 60 Responses
re-using an old fur coat
I used to have a fur coat. When I grew up, I gave it to a relative who lives in a much colder climate where she is very grateful to have it (but she didn't buy it for herself). I could not condone anyone's buying a new fur coat, but it seems absurd not to make use of one from animals that have been dead since long before anti-fur consciousness became widespread. Renouncing the use of the coat as a source of warmth makes no sense to me. Don't we urge recycling?
Maybe the Canadian could turn the old fur coat into the lining of a silk (is silk from silkworms pc?) or Polartec (old pop bottles put to a better use) coat. Or just wear it under a cape so people don't notice. But face it, in very cold climates nothing warms like fur. What should Inuit wear?
Giving old furs to the homeless or for animal rehab are great ideas! On Umbra on (inherited) fur coats posted 1 year, 10 months ago 60 Responses
Too little and too much on oysters
Those sauces sound dreadful. The French, and Europeans generally, eat raw oysters only with a squeeze of lemon, so as not to interfere with the oysters' flavor. I love capers and use it in tartar sauce but I would never use something as strong as capers in a cocktail sauce for oysters or clams or shrimp. Standard cocktail sauce: ketchup, Tobasco, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, horseradish, in proportions to suit your taste. Nothing else, that's already a lot! And what about fried oysters? I'm still looking for an easy way to do fried oysters. So far my attempts have yielded mushy oysters or tough, overcooked oysters. The very best fried oysters I've ever eaten are served in a Japanese restaurant in my neighborhood in Philadelphia. And what about baked oysters? On How I shucked my oyster ambivalence and learned to love the noble bivalve posted 1 year, 11 months ago 4 Responses