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Bon Appetit!

Ashley and Joel Selby are the creative minds (and hands) behind Rational Jar of Honey, the culinary side of their studio, This Paper Ship. They live in a historic apartment in downtown Greensboro and consider themselves graphic designer-farmers, combining technology and nature in their every day lives.

What they lack in culinary education, they make up for by love of food, creativity, design skills, and (not to mention) hundreds of hours spent watching Food Network and poring over their cookbook library. They are inspired by the recent explosion of awesome food blogs and want to bring their own style and tastes to the mix.

Here's to good eating!

Monthly Archives: April 2010

Spring radishes

Our first tiny batch of radishes came up from the garden! More to come soon! Aren’t they beautiful colors?

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Italian Strawberry Custard Tart

I’ve been really needing to make a tart ever since I got my new tart pan. It’s hands down one of my favorite things to bake! We had gone to the farmer’s market downtown over the weekend and bought some strawberries so it was the perfect excuse.
This tart was based off of a sour cherry...

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Garden Updates

The last couple of weeks have been insane for us as a studio, but we’ve still somehow managed to take advantage of suddenly warm temperatures in the NC Piedmont and work on our early Spring 2010 garden! We’ve continued to monitor our container radishes, strawberry, carrots, and broccoli rabe, as well as plant container tomatoes,...

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Artificially Delicious

As anyone who has been reading Rational Jar of Honey for some time would know, we at This Paper Ship are passionate about good, fresh food and supporting local food economies. However, lest anyone should have the grounds for calling us elitists, we decided to start highlighting our “guilty pleasures”: food that you know probably...

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