We spent part of the afternoon today at a crafts fair sponsored by the local City Paper and dubbed “Crafty Bastards.” There were more than 100 booths packed into an area outside the Marie-Reed recreation center in Adams-Morgan and the place was jammed. Lots of handmade stuff–several different vendors of fancifull stuffed monsters made from [...]
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Children were in the news this week. George Bush, while draining the treasury to fund his ghastly war-without-end, announced he would refuse to expand health insurance for the nation’s kids. Atta boy, George. Show ‘em you know how to save where it counts. Meanwhile, a new study published recently in the British medical journal The [...]
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Make yourself a bowl of popcorn. Put your feet up and relax. No heavy lifting in the kitchen today. We’re just going to sit back and take in a few flics. Amazing, the stuff that’s making the rounds on video these days, no? Take, for instance, this surreal orchestra from Austria, a symphony of vegetables, [...]
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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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