We are winding up our fourth year of food appreciation classes yet I think this was our first time ever cooking with lamb. After spending the entire year on the continent of Africa (who knew?), we recently landed in Morocco on our virtual culinary world tour, and in North Africa lamb is a favorite meat, often [...]
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The D.C. Council yesterday in voting on the District’s annual budget dumped a proposed “soda tax” of one percent per ounce in favor of levying a six percent sales tax on soft drinks in order to pay for recently approved “Healthy Schools” legislation. What, you might be asking, is the difference between these two approaches to taxing sodas? [...]
The D.C. Council this afternoon approved a slightly scaled back tax on soft drinks–6 percent, as opposed to 1 cent per ounce–but enough to provide the $6.5 million needed annually to fully fund improved school meal and other programs under “Healthy Schools” legislation. “I am pleased to share the great news that the Healthy Schools Act has been [...]
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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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