May 20th, 2011 at 2:00PM: Aah, summer. A time for the beach, pool parties, lazy days...and sheep cheese? While many foods are undeniably the essence of summer--watermelon, peaches, and anything grilled come to mind--there are plenty of edibles not identified as seasonal foods.
Most of my favorite things to eat just happen to peak in summer, so I decided to compile a list of both the obvious and not-so. Even the most ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Ten iconic foods of summer, and where to find them
May 20th, 2011 at 2:00PM: Aah, summer. A time for the beach, pool parties, lazy days...and sheep cheese? While many foods are undeniably the essence of summer--watermelon, peaches, and anything grilled come to mind--there are plenty of edibles not identified as seasonal foods.
Most of my favorite things to eat just happen to peak in summer, so I decided to compile a list of both the obvious and not-so. Even the most ...Bowermaster's Adventures: Checking in on the BP spill cleanup
Dec 10th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Reports last week from the beaches of Alabama and Mississippi suggest that the post-BP gusher cleanup continues, with varying degrees of success, and that new oil continues to show up.
Near the Alabama-Florida border, a placed called Perdido (Lost) Key, BP-contracted crews have been sifting sand for more than six months to try and get rid of tar mats buried nearly three feet beneath the sand.
...Bowermaster's Adventures: Using creatures to filter the sea
Nov 22nd, 2010 at 9:30AM: While scientists continue to monitor fish taken from the Gulf for raised levels of chemicals and oil, others around the globe are using specific species to purposely suck up polluted waters.
Two recent reports cite scallops and oysters being used like the proverbial "canary in a coal mine" to both warn of the impacts of growing toxins in the ocean and to help clean it up.
In Russia, the ...Bowermaster's Adventures: Lifiting the drilling moratorium
Nov 19th, 2010 at 9:00AM: Less than 180 days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank and less than 60 days after BP finally sealed the well that leaked 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama Administration lifted its own moratorium on deepwater drilling.
While Gulf State oil workers, especially in Louisiana, are relieved, hoping that new permits will be approved by year's end and jobs ...From the shores of Louisiana - Gulf Fisheries
Oct 26th, 2010 at 10:00AM: In Baton Rouge last week I met for the first time a very vocal third-generation shrimper, George Barisich, who has been working the Gulf his entire life, initially for the fun of it – crabbing as a kid – and ever since as a fulltime commercial fisherman, since 1966.
He inherited his 50-foot shrimp, the "FJG," which his father named after his three sons: Frances, Jefferson and ...From the shores of Louisiana - SoLa premiere
Oct 18th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Last weekend I premiered my new documentary film about water and man in Louisiana – "SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories" – in the belly of the beast, in the heart of the state's capitol.
The showing was at the beautiful Manship Theater and drew a crowd of Louisiana's environmental cognoscenti, from activists to lawyers, politicians to fishermen. After ...From the Shores of Louisiana -- Protesting to lift the drilling ban
Aug 13th, 2010 at 9:15AM: Lafayette, Louisiana -- Last month's Rally for the Economy in Lafayette, Louisiana, went largely unnoticed outside the state, though 11,000 vociferous oil workers, their supporters and the elected political elite of the state showed up and shouted to the rooftop about their concerns over the continuing moratorium on deepwater oil drilling.
The Cajundome next to the campus of Louisiana ...From the Shores of Louisiana -- Call in the navy!
Jul 29th, 2010 at 10:31AM:
Cat Island, Louisiana -- During the past eleven weeks I've been on and around the edges of Barataria Bay for many days. This is ground-zero for the oil mess clean-up in southern Louisiana, a 650-square-mile jigsaw puzzle of marshes and wetlands where hundreds of workers have been sweating for weeks, valiantly attempting to wipe, absorb and suck up the oil which has penetrated it deeply.
If ...From the Shores of Louisiana -- Crane Rescue
Jul 27th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
Barataria Bay, Louisiana – 6:50 a.m.: We'd been on the water for more than two hours already and had seen a particularly haunting sunrise thanks to a partial lunar eclipse by the time we reached the edge of Cat Island.
Marsh grass covers the muddy island, located about fifteen miles west of Sulphur Grove in Plaquemine Parish. The island is nearly identical to a couple hundred other ...From the Shores of Louisiana: Morning in Sulphur Grove
Jul 23rd, 2010 at 7:30AM:
Sulphur Grove, Louisiana – At 4:30 a.m. a pair of sport fishing boats being launched on the edge of Barataria Bay on a humid morning – where fishing has been banned for more than two months -- is made more odd thanks to the backlighting of a partial lunar eclipse.
P.J. Hahn, a one-time Texas cop turned Louisiana politician, steps down out of his pick-up truck lugging a ...From the shores of Louisiana: a peek inside of the oil industry
Jul 20th, 2010 at 11:00AM:
Morgan City, Louisiana – Driving old Highway 90 paralleling the Gulf Coast under a vast, super-heated blue sky filled with cumulus it's almost possible to forget the horror that continues to seethe beneath the nearby sea.
But the manmade scenery that lines the road – warehouse buildings, one after another, parking lots filled with pick-up trucks and SUVs -- brings me right back ...From the Shores of Louisiana: Jon takes to the road
Jul 16th, 2010 at 5:00PM:
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Lafayette, Louisiana -- It's a steamy, early-summer day in Southern Louisiana – expecting the "heat index" to top out today around 108 degrees F! – but it's good to be back on the ground here. I've been coming every few months for the past two years, producing a documentary film, and it's started to feel like a ...
From the shores of Louisiana: What fuels energy change?
Jul 10th, 2010 at 10:00AM: Born in the Natal province of South Africa, Ivor van Heerden has been an adopted Louisianan for more than thirty years. During his years here he's been head of the state's coastal restoration program, on the staff at LSU, co-director of the state's hurricane center and a head of Team Louisiana, which investigated the hows and whys of the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina.
Also along the ...From the shores of Louisiana -- A conversation with Paul Templet
Jul 8th, 2010 at 8:30AM: Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Standing in the heart of the bucolic, green LSU campus, where Paul Templet taught environmental science for more than twenty years, it's hard to imagine that the worst ecologic disaster perhaps ever is ongoing just a couple hours away. It's from this landmark that he took a leave of absence in the 1980s to run, for four years, the state's Department of Environmental ...From the shores of Louisiana: Exploring the culture of the oil spill
Jun 11th, 2010 at 3:00PM:
Breaux Bridge, Louisiana -- I've been coming to the Gulf coast of Louisiana every few months since July 2008, making a film about the relationship between man and the water in a place where everywhere you look there is glimpse of a river, creek, bayou, basin, swamp, the Gulf or the Mississippi River. Coincidentally, in light of recent events, one of the first things we filmed upon arrival 23 ...
