catapult magazine

vol. 12, num. 17 :: 2013.09.20 — 2013.10.03

Who needs to slave over a hot stove in August when you can buy a jar of pickles for $1.00 at Aldi? And yet, many people choose to do things the hard way for a variety of reasons. Is there an inherent virtue in making or growing things instead of buying them ready-made?

Feature

Living the homemade life

by Sami Wilson

How a forced transition became a welcome change.

Editorial

Craft lust

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Confronting the luxury of DIY porn.

Articles

Christmas Adam

by Nicole Carlin

A homemade neighborhood tradition engages local kids.

Time is on my side

by Deborah Lewis

Cultivating the texture of life, recipe in hand.

A story of yogurt

by Laura Menze

Tracing the origins of a Friday night ritual reveals its accumulated layers of meaning.

Sherman’s gift

by Jim Schmotzer

A pumpkin pie recipe -- and a life -- to remember.

In case you missed it the first time

Rhythms of delight

by Denise Frame Harlan

An inherited recipe compliments a darkening evening.

Life from scratch

by Jennifer Monroe

A life tapestry woven of baking bread and growing food and bearing children.

What I made

by Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence

Chronicling one week of creating something out of something by hand.

Weaving the web

Canning the intangible

Art House America

Kari Baumann remembers the lessons of her grandmother’s kitchen.

Keeping the feast: Robert Farrar Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb

Curator Magazine

A tribute to the priestly chef, in the wake of his death.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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