This must be the week when the news media wake up to spring and want to interview The Slow Cook in his garden. We’ve been interviewed about chickens by WAMU radio, appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi show to talk about food gardening and yesterday we entertained a film crew from FOX News to talk about [...]
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Everybody sells it. But farmed salmon gets a big fat “avoid” from marine environmental groups such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. The reasons are many: * Salmon are carnivorous. It takes three pounds of fish feed to create one pound of salmon, meaningstressed fish populations are being further exploited to create farmed [...]
We don’t publish many guest posts here at The Slow Cook (this may be the first). But this story was too good to pass by. Nat West, of Portland, Oregon, got tired of waiting for a community garden plot. So he went to Google’s satellite map, located a vacant lot near his home and turned [...]
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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