I am not afraid to use the Customer Service desk at Whole Foods. In fact, I’ve spent a good deal of time at the Customer Service desk. So if you are at Whole Foods and hear over the loudspeaker, “Someone from the grocery team to Customer Service to assist a customer,” that’s probably because I [...]
Tags: bulk foods·grains·Whole Foods
Some of you are probably convinced I spend half my days gazing into the meat display at Whole Foods. Well, you would be wrong. We don’t have that much meat in our diet. In fact, there are so many scraps and leftovers from our catering work that we hardly do any grocery shopping at all [...]
Tags: corn bread·pork·soup
Our common urge to gather around the same campfire is strong. But I really question the food and drink being served, and the prices we are being asked to pay. I spent the evening last night at a hockey game in downtown D.C. My brother-in-law had been gifted with tickets for seats close enough that [...]
Tags: bar food·restaurants
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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