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i just finished reading the omnivore's dilemma (which is so, so good) and it changed my thinking on a few things, mainly how i want to spend my grocery money, and why and where. this summer i want to take a road trip to visit some local farms (well, most will be 2 hours away) and buy some grass-raised meat and eggs and dairy and see what all the fuss is about.

but there's something else i want to try sooner, and that is to make some bread using wild yeast as a starter. wild yeast! collected directly from the air! so neat. so i am going to try to start a bowl of it tonight and maybe by next week sometime i will have something alive and bake-able. and yummy.

(not that i think industrial yeast is bad, and i even have a packet in the cupboard right now that i could use, but the idea of getting something for nothing is very seductive.)