churlishgreen
Underemployed freelance writer and editor, recovering lawyer, I split time between DC and NYC but retain affection for hometown of Detroit.
On Let Us Again Praise NYC Parks Genius Adrian Benepe
Seriously. I have interviewed him several times for magazine stories about NYC parks, he is down to earth and really knows his stuff. He worked summer jobs in the Parks Dept as a teenager and was part of the first class of park rangers.
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On Gochujang: Korean Go-to, All-In-One Magic Chile Sauce
@choipolloi Can you pls post cucumber kimchi recipe on this thread???! Thanks for the great article...
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On Against Gift Giving
This is excellent, I agree with every word...
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On What's Really Pornographic? The Point of Documenting Detroit
@gregorg As a Sweet Juniper fan and a metro Detroit native (I remember Coleman Young and the "hostile suburbs," most of my friends' parents literally refused to go anywhere in the city when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s) I agree with all of this.
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On What's Really Pornographic? The Point of Documenting Detroit
@iantenna The thing is, Detroit is huge and sprawling. It takes me 40 minutes of freeway driving to get from my sister's house just outside one part of the city to my parents' house, just outside another part.
Leaving aside the decay, much of the city doesn't look conventionally "urban" at all--there are a lot of single family houses with yards, small low-rise commercial buildings, and so on. That's one of the drivers of the "rightsizing" effort, using limited resources in a more efficient way. Other cities, such as Baltimore and Philadelphia, are experimenting with interesting programs to use vacant land for community-run gardens and parks, but I'm not sure this kind of thing could be scaled up to the magnitude Detroit needs, or whether a Philadelphia-type park program could be implemented without a strong partner like PennPraxis.
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On Acid Flashback: A Cook’s Playlist Of Vinegars That Rock
Ben Choi, if you write a cookbook (or cooking iPad app, or whatever), I will buy it. Your writing and recipes make me want to leap out of my ergonomic home office chair and get into the kitchen!