This is Jim Freeman's Typepad Profile.
Join Typepad and start following Jim Freeman's activity
Jim Freeman
Recent Activity
A few nurseries sell prunus mume, the source of ume plums (as you said, they're really apricots!) and may be able to point you to commercial growers who are making their own or selling to restaurants/craft makers who are pickling 'em:
https://www.onegreenworld.com/ in Portland
http://www.camforest.com/ in NorthCarolina
both are nice folks to work with. And if you do find a domestic source that's good, you'll post about it, natch?
Thanks!
Things I Love
Umeboshi I've had a long love affair with the pickled "plums" (they're actually apricots) of Japan. I love to start the day with ume tea, and I try to end every sushi meal with a handroll of rice and yama imo sparked with sweetly salty umeboshi paste. But on this trip to Japan I discovered t...
You grow, girl!
Jim
I Can't Wait to Plant Creamflowers and Mushrooms!
Drawing by Lucy Watkins, age 11. A real artist and future Rant reader.
What is it with PETA and getting naked? Is it a high percentage of models in their membership (who, frankly, I would not take advice from about diets)? A mistaken attempt to reach out to the alleged average American male meat-eater? Some kind of food fetish?
Sometimes a vegetable is just a vegetable . . .
P.S. It's not that I'm against getting naked per se! But I tend to agree that the soft-core thing here is way out of line.
Eat your vegetables
Enjoy a pro-veg commercial created by PETA for the Superbowl, but rejected as a tad too suggestive. First, I agree with the writer for Mother Nature Network who hopes this means that PETA has abandoned its really, really obnoxious tactics, like over-the-top self-righteousness, not to mention...
Subscribe to Jim Freeman’s Recent Activity