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It's a great bottom up description of the capitalist process, and why #capitalism does not love humanity.
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Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas @bookstadon
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In somewhat related news, I decided to get some bottles ready for the eventual vinegar.
I found some nice bottles in the cupboard like these (pic) which I think will do the trick.
But the labels, sigh. One brand was good, the label came right off after a brief soak. Another brand - I will be scrubbing for a month of Sundays to get that sucker off.
Why do they make it so hard????
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Ditto jars. I collected a couple of dozen jars from friends when I began #fermenting. Now I have 5 years worth of scrubbing to remove labels. I am not sure it is worth it.
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Things have definitely quietened down in the grape vinegar fermentation department. Previously, altho the bubbling was easing, once it was stirred there would be a renewed oxygenated effort. But today, very little fermentation.
As I understand it, this is as it should be, and we are heading towards straining time.
It's about at this point in the video I am using (in conjunction with a couple of articles, but the video is a good guide),
Click on the link for a description of where it is at: https://youtu.be/y0wqy0acxeA?t=48
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2/2 #GrapeSaga #GrapesOfPlenty #GrapesOfWrath
There is 1 kg grapes in the freezer, and the rest (from the first grape picking) is busy making vinegar. I can't recall how many I used without looking it up. Perhaps 1 kg.
We are into Week 2 of fermenting the vinegar. It has been strongly smelling of alcohol, but that is diminishing now. Also the strong bubbling is calming (as expected). The next milestone will be the formation of the mother, I suspect.
The view from the top looks like olives, but they are def grapes. You can see from the side that mostly the grapes are collapsing.
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Not sure if the #GrapeSaga has been #GrapesOfPlenty or #GrapesOfWrath 
First, here is the 1.6Kg of dried grapes over 2 sessions of picking, slicing and dehydrating grapes, about a week apart. 600g resulting from the first one, and 1kg from the 6.5Kg of bunches. (They are super dehydrated, more than the first lot, so would have a heavier yield if I'd not miscalculated.)
There is no condensation, so I can label and store.
I had so many things to say about this book. There were so many things covered and interesting topics to go on and on about.
But I just want to harp on one thing: This is, without a doubt, the most important book I’ve ever read.
I’m not saying that it’s my FAVORITE book or anything - it is the most IMPORTANT book I’ve ever read. The kind of book you wish everyone would read because it covers something so well and so thoroughly that you know in your heart if everyone read it, we’d all get on the same page and move forward in a way that made more sense. That we would realize we’ve been sold an idea forever ago that will never come to fruition. That it IS possible to move forward. Together. Toward a better future.
Because this book is about America selling its soul and turning its back on the people and even the land.
People will be real quick to dismiss it because it’s old, but I promise you that it as applicable now as it was then. You read it and you can feel the truth and the danger of the truth. You get a real feel for why this book was banned. Why Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about it and why Rage Against the Machine covered that song. You get a feel for why Steinbeck says he was run out and almost killed in Oklahoma after the book had come out.
I would mention to people that I’m reading this book and they’d say “oh, that was a good movie.” I promise that, unless there was a 20-episode mini-series, it wouldn’t have the rage and sheer TEETH this book has.
Or they’d say “that’s about the dust bowl era, right?”
Partially, I guess, but that’s not what the book is about.
The is about humanity and humanity’s obligation to itself - our obligation to each other.
It is timeless and feels almost obligatory.
Normally I don’t say you should read a book. I don’t think it’s my place.
But if you haven’t read it, you should.
And if you HAVE, you should read it again.
#grapesofwrath #johnsteinbeck #books #literature #capitalism #consumerism #bookrecommendation
But I just want to harp on one thing: This is, without a doubt, the most important book I’ve ever read.
I’m not saying that it’s my FAVORITE book or anything - it is the most IMPORTANT book I’ve ever read. The kind of book you wish everyone would read because it covers something so well and so thoroughly that you know in your heart if everyone read it, we’d all get on the same page and move forward in a way that made more sense. That we would realize we’ve been sold an idea forever ago that will never come to fruition. That it IS possible to move forward. Together. Toward a better future.
Because this book is about America selling its soul and turning its back on the people and even the land.
People will be real quick to dismiss it because it’s old, but I promise you that it as applicable now as it was then. You read it and you can feel the truth and the danger of the truth. You get a real feel for why this book was banned. Why Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about it and why Rage Against the Machine covered that song. You get a feel for why Steinbeck says he was run out and almost killed in Oklahoma after the book had come out.
I would mention to people that I’m reading this book and they’d say “oh, that was a good movie.” I promise that, unless there was a 20-episode mini-series, it wouldn’t have the rage and sheer TEETH this book has.
Or they’d say “that’s about the dust bowl era, right?”
Partially, I guess, but that’s not what the book is about.
The is about humanity and humanity’s obligation to itself - our obligation to each other.
It is timeless and feels almost obligatory.
Normally I don’t say you should read a book. I don’t think it’s my place.
But if you haven’t read it, you should.
And if you HAVE, you should read it again.
#grapesofwrath #johnsteinbeck #books #literature #capitalism #consumerism #bookrecommendation
Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas @bookstadon
