Tag Archives: Ox-Bow

The Value of Residencies (Eric’s Curry Night)

20 years ago this July/August I first set foot at Ox-Bow. A student at the time, I volunteered to cook dinner for the campus. It was my first time feeding a crowd like that, though I was a budding foodie and aspiring cook. I felt inspired to give back to a community that had give me so much– many […]
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I’m From Ox-Bow

Photo c/o Skip Ballou I’m from Ox-Bow. I’ve been saying this a lot lately. I’m okay with some bugs in the house, spiders, a welcome visitor. That hole in the screen? It can wait a few weeks. The old, the rotting– familiar and comforting. Just give it a fly paint job.   Jessica & I […]
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Dionysiac Rising

“”Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: the artistic power of the whole of nature reveals itself to the supreme gratification of the primal Oneness amidst the paroxysms of intoxication” I left my making comfort zone a little bit this summer. For the past two years, for Shannon Stratton’s […]
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Zine Release: Eric May’s The Flora & Fauna of Ox-Bow

  My account of 15 years of nature loving at Ox-Bow! $10 cheap! Buy via PayPal HERE  
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8/9: Cooking Chapulines

Yesterday I experienced a culinary milestone, I successfully cooked bugs, grasshoppers to be exact. It was a true pleasure to collaborate with Andy Yang and his Insectology class at Ox-Bow, who collected about 60 grasshoppers over the course of their two week class with hopes that we might prepare something tasty. I’ve had experience eating […]
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One Hour Nap

I found myself in a precarious situation at Ox-Bow this summer. My job is the best- not only do I get paid to live in Shangri-La all summer, but we, the staff are provided with room and board AND a modest studio. Idyllic, right? Actually… after 12 entire summers here I have certain issues that […]
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Top 10 2011

I feel like I have definitely put in my lion’s share of food writing this year, as evidenced in the pages of this blog. Add several dozen posts on LTHForum.com (my handle is Jefe: my other top ten food list can be found here) as well as my column on foraging for Thelocalbeet.com. Oh and […]
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Yard Sale Sunday!

This Sunday Lauren Anderson hosted a yard sale on the meadow at Ox-Bow A few of us brought some wares down to hawk. I brought signs, zines, and mix CDs. And naturally, hotdogs for $1
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2010: Top 10 Food

Another great food year, obsessive as always- the day’s (and sometimes the week’s) food plans are first and last things on my mind every day. I guess I broke the past two years’  trend of thriftiness- things went a bit more indulgent this year- what with a $26 dollar burger in the following list. That […]
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Renegade building at Ox-Bow in the year 2010 Part 2

The second interview in the series is with Mikey Henderberg, one of Ox-Bow’s longtime cooks and part time maintenance guy who is a master tinkerer, a true jack- of- all- trades. His projects this past summer include a brand new wood fired oven and a public solar shower. MH: The first bread oven was built […]
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