It’s official. Yesterday in recognition of the cooler weather settling in I replaced the usual granola in a client’s breakfast with steel cut oats. This whole grain cereal may be one of the healthiest foods on the planet, but I like it particularly for the nutty texture. Still, many consumers have never heard of steel [...]
Yes, Virginia, we used to eat something called “vegetables.” On the all-powerful Oprah Show recently, Jessica Seinfeld, wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, got a huge platform on which to tout her new method of eating, wherein children never have to be bothered with vegetables again because they’re pureed and concealed in favorite foods such as [...]
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A year ago around this time I was driving 30 miles to a farm supply in Annapolis to buy a jar of something called “pickling lime.” It’s not that I will go to any lengths to find the most obscure ingredients, but I had a peck of green tomatoes on my hands and a recipe [...]
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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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