HOLD THE TOMATOES!

Well now. Delighted to announce another jump in my Blog Peep Count: it's now up to 9.5 billion peeps (thanks, Mike, for the nudge over that latest "top"). No doubt, it's because of my Martha Stewart nature, for instance:



Yep, everything in above bowl was grown by Moi. Well, I suppose except the mozzarella cheese coz the buffalo got away. And except the olive oil because my initial harvest from last year rotted away. And except for the vinegar because I couldn't figure out how they grow on trees. And except for the salt because the ocean ain't local. And except for the pepper because the pepper bush erupted in flames. That is, Moi grew the tomatoes and basil. Which leads this City Slicker Farmer to post a new update to her Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. Note that if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects (and we have just added some new faboo books to the review copy list). And I'm looking looking looking for reviewers to get books offa moi floors and to hit 100 new reviews for the next issue! Yeah! More info on that HERE.


CITY SLICKER SUMMER HARVEST
77 cherry tomatoes
11 regular tomatoes
28 red onions
2 strawberries
15 zucchini
43 summer squash
51 squash flowers
44 green beans
1 lemon squash
1 pumpkin (mistakenly and prematurely harvested upon being mistaken for an oversized yellow squash)
20 clumps of basil
5 clumps of sage
1 green cucumber
4 lemon cucumbers


PUBLICATIONS
THE GRAPE CRIES OUT! AN ANTHOLOGY OF WINE POEMS edited by David Alvarez (read it in manuscript. it's brilliant and fabulous -- and not just coz Moi is in it (really); it's a very fresh take on a somewhat traveled subject)

* FROM IDYLLS & RUSHES, poems by Susana Gardner

* LITTLE RICHARD THE SECOND, poems by Gregg Biglieri

* DEAR FAILURES, poems by Trey Sager (amusing)

* TRANSFER, poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

* THE HANDS OF STRANGERS: POEMS FROM THE NURSING HOME by Janice N. Harrington

* KINGDOM ANIMALIA, poems by Aracelis Girmay

THE ADOPTION PAPERS, poems by Jackie Kay

GORGEOUS CHAOS: NEW + SELECTED POEMS 1965-2001 by Jack Marshall

THE ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY: ESSAYS FROM THE OTHER WORLD by Kenneth Rexroth

CARLOS VILLA AND THE INTEGRITY OF SPACES, Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves (this long-overdue art monograph with essays and other contributions by Margo Machida, Mark Johnson, Moira Roth, Bill Berkson, and David Goldberg will be Meritage Press' next release)

THE EYES OF GRAY WOLF, children's book by Jonathan London, illustrated by Jon Van Zyle

LITTLE PRINCES: ONE MAN'S PROMISE TO BRING HOME THE LOST CHILDREN OF NEPAL, memoir by Conor Grennan

I BEAT THE ODDS: FROM HOMELESSNESS TO THE BLIND SIDE AND BEYOND, memoir by Michael Oher with Don Yaeger

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION, novel by Marcia Clark (yep -- it's that O.J. Simpson Prosecutor-turned-Novelist. Ain't bad for the genre!)

FEAR NOTHING, novel by Dean Koontz

PRETTY LITTLE THINGS, novel by Jilliane Hoffman

A HEARTBEAT AWAY, novel by Michael Palmer

THE BEST REVENGE, novel by Stephen White

ONE GOOD DOG, novel by Susan Wilson

TO SAVE THIS CHILD, novel by Darlene Graham

SATORI, novel by Don Winslow


WINES
2008 Fog Dog pinot noir Sonoma Coast
2010 Sylvaner, Domaine Ostertag, Vieilles Vignes Alsace
2006 Muscat Lunel, Groff Degenfeld, Tokaji
2009 Muller Thurgau, Erste + Neue, Alto Adige
1997 Torbreck "The Steading"
2007 Peter Michael chardonnay "La Carriere"
2007 Ch. Paradis Terra des Anges
2010 Honig vineyards Sauvignon blanc
2008 MacMurray Ranch pinot noir Sonoma Coast
2004 Schweiger Family Cabernet Spring Mountain District
2009 Emmolo sauvignon blanc