Remember, oh, it seems like another lifetime ago–our matanza adventure slaughtering pigs and making sausages with our farmer friends Brett Grohsgal and Christine Bergmak. Subsequently, my story about the matanza appeared in Edible Chesapeake magazine. Today, it is the lead story in Edible Nation, the national blog for all of the various “Edible” magazines around [...]
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I went off to make sausages with the kids in my “food appreciation” classes yesterday and forgot not only a vital part to my new sausage press but also my camera. You will just have to make due with this pathetic picture of the electric meat grinder that my wife inherited from her grandmother. It’s [...]
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I was doing a little maintenance in the garden yesterday and came upon this vigorous bush of green shading my new strawberry plants. I had a suspicion it belonged to a parsnip I planted last fall. I bent down and pulled on the green leafy part. I pulled… And I pulled…. And I PULLED…. Finally [...]
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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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