Daughter and I took a walk to the farmers market at Dupont Circle yesterday and found spring busting out all over. There was a canopy of blossoms over the sidewalks. The star magnolias beg you to stop and admire. These daffodils were ready to make an escape. This fellow found a quiet place to sit [...]
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Locally-grown foods may have a chance to compete with the industrial food complex when there is some infrastructure for local produce. Think about it. Most of the nation’s farmers markets are closed for the winter. When they are open, it is only for a few hours a week. Those that remain open between Thanksgiving and [...]
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Our friend Mary is visiting from California. Quick! Make a snack! I can say in all honesty that I had nothing to do with this. It’s my wife’s concoction and her go-to, fattiest, most indulgent and politically incorrect guilt food: Rotel mixed with Velveeta cheese. Rotel is like salsa in a can–diced tomatoes and green [...]
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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