SuperForester Cassie Presents: Bento Box Ring and Cute Cookery!

This just came in from the incandescent, unstoppable SuperForester Cass, (she of the mighty Gravel and Gold blog!) Absorb!

"Hiya Jack!

SuperForest is looking super great! I love your alphabet for peace drawings.
Also, I for one would buy the T-shirt for sure. And I would really, really buy the hoodie.

We had fantastic travels and it was good to take a break from it all, but so good to come home.
And now that we're home, we can get down to the vital business of eating lots of sushi. It seems that no matter where I travel--even to France, the very heart of gourmand rapture--all I crave, seek, downright require is Japanese food. Which got me to thinking....Surely your devoted SuperForesters would agree that nothing covers the Japanese/lunchtime sustainability bases like a hearty bento box. So then, a this-and-that celebration of the ultimate this-and-that apparatus, the mighty bento box:


For a truly tiny bit of this-and-that on the go, it's wise to pack an itty-bitty snack in your essential bento box ring, from the excellent CRAFT blog.

For an awesome kick in the the creativity pants, be inspired by the daily outpouring of one mother's love, creativity, and bento artistry to be found on e-bento. Edible froggies, and octopi, and samurai, Oh my!

To join the whole universe of daily bento blogging, check in with one of the many suggested at cookingcute.com!


If it's the bento accoutrements, (say a hand carved and lacquered Japanese elm bento box,) rather than the contents therein that really get you a-drooling, justbento.com has what you're after.

Might there be something for SuperForest here?

Hope you are very well indeed.
Love!
Cass!"

-Cass,

Indeed there is! Thank you so much for the post!
Love,

Jackson

Endangered Ugly Things Blog!

Just got a great email from SuperForester Cass!

"Hiya Jack, Niki, and the rest of the Team!

Here's a SF post just waiting to happen—

A friend of mine recently directed me to an essential blog, Ugly Endangered Things, where ungainly species under threat of extinction get top billing, for a change, instead of their cute, fuzzy fellows.

So often when it comes to saving endangered species, beauty dictates where we focus our attention—it's all cute Siberian Tiger this, adorable Giant Panda that. When really, who's to say which dwindling critter is more vital to our ecosystem or more worthy of our preservation efforts? It seems that in the game of conservation, the campaign for survival all comes down to the swimsuit competition, so to speak.

However one look at these "ugly endangered things" drives home the truth that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. Now in my view, diversity, adaptation, and blue speckled bills just so happen to be totally gorgeous—more gorgeous that a gazillion conventionally cute critters hogging up every preservation postage stamp, coffee cup, and tote bag in sight. I prefer the cause of Purple Burrowing Frog, the Wartyback Mussel, the Shoebill, the Ohio lamprey, and all the rest of these cute-to-me creatures any day.

And on the off chance that it's really the cuteness of the T-shirt, not the critter, that counts, I expect those awesome UET shirts have made all the difference for the Australian Lungfish and the Li'l Tuatara.

Yay SuperForest!
LOVE
Cass

Great intel, Cass-Master!

Endangered Ugly Things is sweet.

I'd never before heard of the Purple Burrowing frog



Yeesh.

And wait a minute... Look at the L'il Tuatara!



It's ADORABLE. Like a mini lizard. It's the pug of lizards. Correction, it's the puggle of lizards.

SuperForester Cass runs an amazing shop in San Francisco called Gravel & Gold, and writes an incredible blog to boot.

Love!