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New technology makes wooleasier to care for; now it comesin the machine-washable,tumble-dry-low variety.

A quick tour of a few storesin the area revealed manyoptions for staying warm thiswinter. The newest innovationis at Peter Becks in Salisbury.This store is carrying a line of100-percent wool, base-layerclothing, tops and bottoms,

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made by the guy who created Toms of Maine tooth-paste (after he sold that company to Colgate-Palmo-live for a jillion dollars). The pieces are made fromsuper-light-weight wool, quite sheer, designed to wickaway moisture and theyre odor resistant. Really greatfor hikers, skiers and everyone else who indulgesin outdoor winter sports. And they feel great to thetouch.

The other wool line that the store carries is Ibexfrom Vermont. They have a variety of pieces for menand women. The clothing is label free in the eventthat you dont like being a walking advertisement

for a sportswear company. The vests and jackets arehandsome enough to do double-duty when the occa-sion calls for dressy but what you are most concernedabout is staying warm.

Todays wool is not the scratchy fiber of generationsago, but for a great against-your-skin feel, nothingbeats cashmere. You get the softness of fleece withthe durability of wool, and if you treat your sweaterright, it will reward you with decades of use. I only re-

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cently discovered, while talking with Kate Carty, ofher eponymous store in Millerton, that cashmereshould never be dry-cleaned. That was news to me,but apparently dry-cleaning is why sweaters pill.Hand-washing in cold water with mild detergentand drying flat so the sweater does not stretch outis the only method approved by the Scottish manu-

facturers of the very enticing sweaters Carty sellsin her store.

You can take your pick of jacket length sweaters,shawls, wraps and scarves. Wraps are particularlypopular as they can be an added layer over a jacket,a sumptuous scarf, or simply something to wearinside just to increase the coziness factor. Cartydoesnt just sell Scottish cashmere; she also sellsMinnie Rose, a popular womens line in wonderful

colors, complete with ruffles. Carty offers lots ofmenswear, too.If you havent been to Her House in Millerton

you should make a point of checking it out. HerHouse shares space with the clothing boutique, Par-lour, on Main Street and the shop has an eclecticmix of clothing and accessories.

This past summer, I bought the sweetest cot-ton nightgown for my daughter there. By nowthe store is fully stocked for the fall season. AnneNewbury, the proprietor, likes the small American,French and English companies that have limitedproduction runs, and, she says, sweaters with greatdetails. One of the best may be Meg Cohen cash-mere, a New York City-based company known forits reasonably priced shawls, scarves and wraps.

Still, despite all the virtues of natural fibers,there are times when only a Patagonia Nano Puff

jacket will do. Super-light, down filled jackets, they

stormed the marketplace about five years ago andare still all the rage. They are sleek, come in snap-py colors and Peter Becks also carries them in kidssizes.

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Teen fashions. As I contemplatethe topic, I realize how much I will miss those mother/daughter what are you wearing?! issues when thelast of my five girls are grown.

I am, of course, being sarcastic. About missing that.And so I hike up my mom jeans and my expectations

and dare to hope for an afternoon of dtente as we headout to shop for real jeans.

Shopping for school clothes, that ritual that signals theend of summer well before the calendar does, never losesits sense of signaling the biggest change life throws at allof us during the year, whatever your perspective.

When the initial adrenaline rush subsides, it strikes methat I am lucky that none of the five are fashion crazy.And that they are lucky to not have grown up on the cuspof such a huge societal change as womens lib, when twogenerations faced off on the issue of proper attire.

At a popular family clothing store the chain has anissue with this, so well call it, uhhh, New Army we areimmediately confronted by mannequins wearing skinny

jeans. (They actually dont do anything as aggressive asmoving on their own, but the offbeat TV ads haunt.)

Who wears skinny jeans? I ask my 17-year-old.Everyone, she answers, not realizing Im being rhetori-

cal and also not daring to roll her eyes because she knows

Karen Bartomiolitakes her girls(and one of their boy

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with normal jeans and sensible tops (dont call themthat in front of the kids).

The always-a-step-ahead marketing geniuses knowjeans now need a name, and each of my three teens

can state undeniably that she fits perfectly into stylesthat go by the likes of the Diva, or the Sweetheart.Dont ask about boyfriend jeans. They were as clue-

less as I.My advice, parents: choose your battles, and always

remember jeans are not as permanent as tattoos.All that said, I had no idea I was chasing down thewrong fashion trend story.

On the way to the car, we detoured into the phonestore (remember when people only did that to pickup a phone leased from the sole phone company, andthey all came with cords and your choices were desk orwall, black or sometimes red). I smacked myself in theforehead.

I listen to the girls, and the boyfriend who camealong, talk about who has what cell phone.

Sometimes its OK to have the same phone as some-one else.

Sometimes not.

I discover it depends entirely on whether you likethe person or not. It has nothing to do with riskinga fashion faux pax, i.e., wearing the same prom dress,or making a fashion statement, i.e., buying the sameboots your BFF loves.

You dont want someone you hate thinking you cop-ied them, one daughter sums it up.

But what about touch screens and slide-out key-boards and all the latest technology?

Well, it turns out, its all about how you use them;whether you spend more time texting, e-mailing orplaying games, or doing all three at the sametime.

Its not necessary to get into it any further. All youneed to know is its a very functional thing.

Fashion following function; now theres a new con-cept. A far cry, and yet oddly similar, to when my momand I fought over my wearing a hat.

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ment that wasnt worth repeating.Now Lahey has taken control of his no-knead breadin his book, My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work No-Knead Method. In one of the cover blurbs on the back,chef/author/TV star Anthony Bourdain says Lahey is tobread what the Dalai Lama is to Buddhism. I dont feel likethis is hyperbole. Lahey is truly evangelical in the way hedescribes his breadmaking method. And he makes bread-baking accessible to even really bad bread bakers such asmyself. I am the living proof that any idiot can bake aston-

ishingly good bread; all you have to do is follow Laheysinstructions to the letter.

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He studies ancient techniques.And the result is a bread

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you need to be fussy about theflour (in short, get King Arthurbread flour or Bobs Red Millunbromated unbleached whiteflour) but you dont need tobe fussy about your yeast (Iused Fleischmanns and it wasfine). The essential piece ofequipment that you need is aDutch oven kind of thing. Ivebeen using a heavy, deep castiron skillet with a lid and itsbeen fantastic. I havent hadthe courage yet to put one ofmy expensive Le Creuset potsin the oven, but Im nervous

like that. I will note that all

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I then let it rise until I get home from work the nextday. Unfortunately, I cant make it for that nights dinnerbecause the dough needs to be tipped out of its bowl andallowed to rise for two more hours in a clean tea towel.But if you bake it before you go to bed, you can have

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Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set it aside in a spotthat does not get drafts and is not in direct sunlight (I usemy dining room table). In 12 to 18 hours, the dough will be

bubbly and will be about twice as big as when you put iton the table. Lahey recommends the 18-hour rise, and Ivealways let it go for the full time or even a little longer than18 hours. After 12 hours my dough is definitely bubbly anddefinitely doubled in size. Once winter and the cold nightsarrive, however, I suspect that the fermentation will beslower.

At any rate, after youve waited between 12 and 18 hours,flour up a large cutting board or your counter. And setaside a clean towel that has a light coating of flour on it.The dough should be clinging to the sides of the bowl so

you will need to gently pry it away from the sides and thenroll it out onto your floured cutting board; then transfer itto your clean tea towel on a cookie sheet.

First, roll the dough into a round loaf shape; then putit, seam side down, on the tea towel. Fold the edges of thetowel over the dough and let it rise another two hours. Inthe last half hour of this second fermentation, turn the ovenon to 475 degrees and put your covered pot in the oven on a

rack in the lower third of the oven.Half an hour later, very carefully remove your very hot

pot from the oven. Do another quick dusting of the dough,so its easier to remove from the tea towels, and then gentlyroll or lift it into the hot pot. Cover and bake for 30 min-utes, then remove the lid and continue baking until thebread is a nice rich brown, which can be anywhere from 15to 30 minutes. If you plan to freeze and rebake it, err on theside of underbaking it a little. Remove your pot from theoven and remove the bread from the pan with a spatula.Cool on a wire rack for an hour.

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Will Calhoun

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asked people who know a lot more about it than me fortheir thoughts.

Blogger Pam Palmer (Green Keen magazine) says her

first choice for cleaning agents is one made from naturalingredients that are edible, such as white vinegar, bakingsoda, lemon or from pure castile soaps. Used properly inappropriate combinations, these all-natural cleaners are

just as effective as chemically-processed cleaners.Palmers Plan B is an all-natural cleaner with all the

ingredients listed. I do not recommend using any productthat does not have a compete ingredient list or one whichlists some or all of their ingredients as proprietary.

Asked about brands readily available in supermarkets,

such as Natures Source (part of SC Johnson); Greening theCleaning/Imus Ranch Foods; Green Works Clorox; UltraPurex; Seventh Generation; Arm and Hammer Essential.Palmer said If a product is 96 percent natural, and if the4 percent is in the category of a low-level irritant, thensometimes I choose that cleaner. Many of the top brand-name companies have been coming out with their owngreen brands. Rather than crucifying them for any un-natural ingredients, I have chosen to encourage the good.Consumer interest in environmentally healthy soaps andcleaners will drive the market toward more competitionand purer products.

Grist.org sounds the alarm about conventional dishsoaps and laundry detergents, which are often made fromnon-renewable petroleum. Other horrors: detergentscontaining alkyphenol ethoxylates, which are suspectedhormone disruptors that dont readily biodegrade and canthreaten wildlife after they go down your drain.

And: The fragrances in detergents and fabric softeners

can contain phthalates, chemicals that have been linked tocancer and reproductive-system harm in animal lab tests.Fragrances may also trigger asthma and allergic reactions,with symptoms including skin and respiratory irritation,headaches, and watery eyes.

Hey, sounds like me working on that refrigerator.Okay, there are a lot of products out there, some are bet-

ter than others, and the informed consumer really needsto do some digging. The Women and Environment blog

. . . OK, Whats

Plan B?


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provides a lengthy list of recipes for making green clean-ing products from scratch.

Such as an all-purpose cleaner: 2 cups white distilledvinegar; 2 cups water; 20-30 or more drops of essential oil(optional)

Tip: Warming in microwave until barely hot will boostcleaning power for tough jobs. Only be sure to microwavein a glass container.

(Women and Environment also gives tips on havinggreen cleaning parties, which sounds a little rococo forme.)The Northwest Corner consumer can also cut to the chaseand buy cleaning products from Cloverdale in West Corn-wall. Proprietor Harry Colley said as far as hes concernedhis original all-purpose is, well, the original, and the pre-cursor to todays green products.

I think we were the first, he said. I dont remember alot of green products 20-odd years ago.

Cloverdales formula has proprietary elements, but themain ingredient is no secret: quaternary ammonium com-pound, something derived from coconuts.

The company also makes a laundry detergent that I, adedicated clotheshorse, personally endorse and use on myexpensive shirts. I also ran out of dish soap once and useda tiny amount of the laundry soap. It worked fine.

Cloverdale products are available at LaBonnes, LindellsHardware, Guidos, The Berkshire Co-Op, Davis IGA oronline at cloverdaleinc.com.

Oh that gunk on top of the refrigerator? I finallybroke down and attacked it with the all-purpose cleanerfrom Greening the Cleaning (from Dierdre Imus, wife of

radios acerbic Don Imus).It worked, and I didnt keel over.

A Highly Arbitrary List of Online Resources

The federal Health and Human Services departmentprovides access to Material Safety Data Sheets, which tell

you whats in cleaning products: householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htmThe Green Guide/National Geographic website provides

a list of general purpose cleaners: thegreenguide.com/buying-guidePam Palmer writes about green issues at greenkeen.

blogspot.comLearn about green cleaning parties at womenandenvi-

ronment.orgCheck out West Cornwalls own Cloverdale at cloverda-

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