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A Slow Thanksgiving
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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Cooks We Love
- • Alice Waters
- • Edward Giobi
- • John Thorne
- • Julia Child
- • Mario Batali
- • Patience Gray
- • Paul Bertolli
- • Paula Wolfer
- • Richard Olney
At the Movies
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Best Food Writers
- • Elizabeth David
- • Patience Gray
- • John Thorne
- • Calvin Trillin
- • Jeffrey Steingarten
- • Edward Behr
- • M.F.K. Fisher
- • R.W. Apple
Links
- ► Bad Things in Food
- Corn and the Cheapness of Food
- Ethanol: Energy Waste
- Harvesting Cash: The Washington Post series
- How Big Ag is Poisoning the Water
- Life Next to a Hog CAFO
- Livestock as Threat to Environment: UN Report
- Monsanto vs. Schmeiser
- Our Failing Farm Policy
- Samuelson on Farm Subsidies
- The Farm Bill via Michael Pollan
- The Threat to Small Farms
- U.S. Ag Policy: Down on the Farm
- Who Gets Farm Subsidies: Evironmental Working Group
- Why Salads Cost More Than a Big Mac
- Why the Meat Giants Thrive - Philpott
- ► Compost & Gardening Video
- ► Composting with Worms
- ► D.C. Food Blogs
- ► D.C. Guide
- ► Farm to Table
- ► Fats Cholesterol & Low-Carb
- Carb Wars Blog
- Cholesterol Myths
- Fat can be good for you
- Gary Taubes bookmarks
- Gary Taubes Webcast UC Berkeley 2007
- Insulin Resistance: The Real Culprit
- Lard Lovers
- LDL Particle Test
- Livin' la Vida Low-Carb
- The Soft Science of Dietary Fat
- This is why you're fat.com
- What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?
- ► Fighting Obesity
- ► Food Blogs
- Accidental Hedonist
- Austin Bush
- Best Bites - DC Restaurants
- Blog For Rural America
- Bob Delgrosso
- Chews Wise
- Chow.com
- Civil Eats
- Clean Your Plate Club
- Culinate
- Cured Meats
- Deliberately
- Ethicurian
- Expatriate's Kitchen
- Food & Water Watch
- Food Blog s'Cool
- Food First
- Food News - Environmental Working
- Food Politics
- Food Renegade
- Homegrown.org
- I heart Kale
- Internet Food Association
- Jacqueline Church
- John Thorne's Website
- Just Braise
- La Vida Locavore
- Last Night's Dinner
- Meanwhile, Back in the Kitchen
- Michael Pollan
- Mighty Foods
- Mulch Blog
- Obama Foodorama
- Organic Consumers
- Organic to Be
- Over a Tuscan Stove
- Peak Food
- Pomain
- Rambling Spoon
- Spot On: Kevin Weeks
- Stephen Cooks
- Stuffed & Starved
- Sustainable Table
- The Atlantic: Food
- The Book I'm Not Reading
- The Food Times
- The Last Appetite
- The Nourished Kitchen
- The Salted Cod
- The Traveler's Lunchbox
- The Whole Hog
- Thoughts on the Table
- UN Food & Agriculture News
- Urban Simplicity
- US Food Policy
- What Geeks Eat
- White Trash BBQ
- Women's Garden Cycles
- World Watch--Brian Halweil's Blog
- ► Food Gardening Resources
- American Community Gardening Association
- Community Greens
- Find a Community Garden
- Food Security Learning Center
- GardenWeb
- Garlic: Everything You Need to Know
- Green Guerillas
- Growing Potatoes
- GrowVeg.com
- Heirloom Seed Sources
- International Potato Center
- Kitchen Gardeners International
- Midwest Permaculture
- Mother Earth News
- My Organic Garden D.C.
- Onion Gardening
- Pruning Tomatoes
- Revive the Victory Garden
- Seed Distributors
- Sharing Backyards
- Vegetable Gardener
- ► Food Justice
- ► Food Preservation
- ► Free and Foraged
- ► Garden Blogs
- ► Gardening Blogs
- Climate Change & Food Supplies
- Farm Policy
- Fast Grow the Weeds
- Future House Farm
- Gardent Rant
- Granny's Garden School
- Grow Biointensive
- Growing Power--Milwaukee
- Illinois & Chicago
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Local Food Dude
- Local Food in Season
- Local Harvest
- Local vs. Regional Philpott
- Locavores--San Francisco
- Meats: Commodity, Branded, Pastured
- Michael Pollan on Sustainable Agriculture
- New York State
- Om Organics--San Francisco
- Organic Farming Research Foundation
- Organics: How to Make the Movement Relevant
- Pacific Northwest
- People's Grocery--Oakland
- Polyface Farms
- Project for Public Spaces
- Rodale's New Farm
- Salt Lake City
- Seattle Tilth
- Shannon Hayes
- Society for Agriculture & Food Ecology
- Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
- The Good Life Center
- Urban Permaculture Video--Seattle
- What the financial collapse can teach us about the food system
- ► Good Things in Food
- A Conversation with Michael Pollan
- American Grassfed Association
- Cooking in Cast Iron
- Defining Moment for Better Food - NY Times
- Eat Wild: Grassfed Livestock
- Eating as a Political Act
- Iowans Countering Hog Confinement - Philpott
- Lard: Wall Street Journal
- Local Slaughterhouse
- Media That Matters: Good Food
- RAFT: Renewing America's Food Traditions
- Real Food Challenge
- Reimagining Our Food System: Part 1
- Retrovore
- The Story of Food Democracy Now: NY Times
- Vegetable Orchestra
- Vegetable Orchestra Live 2
- ► Have Garden Will Cook
- Calendula & Concrete
- Coltivi
- Compost Bin Blog
- Dandelion Haven
- Down on the Allotment
- Edible Landscaping w/ Charlie Nardozzi
- Elements in Time
- Farmgirl Fare
- Fast Grow the Weeds
- Gardenpunks
- Garlic Breath
- Grow. Cook. Eat.
- I'm Mad and I Eat
- Joannas Food
- Jumbo Empanadas
- Kate Hill
- Kitchen Gardeners International
- L'Atelier Vert
- Living Small
- Modern Beet
- My Kitchen Garden
- My Room with a View
- Purple Podded Peas
- Rappahanock Cook
- Rolling in the Dough
- Salt Lake City Veggies
- Sand Creek Almanac
- Sarah's Homestead
- Skippy's Vegetable Garden
- Surviving (on) Massachussetts
- ► Hunting
- ► Industrial agriculture
- Changes in Iowa
- Concentration in Food and Agriculture (PDF)
- Concentration of Agricultural Markets (PDF)
- Factory Farming Campaign - Humane Society
- Factory Farms Interactive Map
- Industrial Farming - Barbara Kingsolver
- Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
- Saving Our Soil
- The Meatrix
- Toward a Post-Carbon Agriculture (pdf download)
- Vertical Integration - Big Meat
- Where Nitrogen Comes From
- ► Learning About Composting
- Backyard Composting (pdf download)
- California Backyard Composting
- Compost Guide
- Compost Guy
- Composting Fundamentals
- Composting Leaves: Washington Post
- Composting Tips: Taunton Press
- Cornel Soil Health
- Edible Landscaping - Composting
- EPA Guide to Composting
- Garden Klog
- GardenWeb Composting Forum
- Green Culture Composters
- Leaf Composting: New Jersey
- Make Your Own Compost Tumbler
- Mastercomposter.com
- Nature Mill Composter
- Seattle Tilth
- The Compost Bin Blog
- The Pfeiffer Center
- The Power of Leaves
- The Rubbish Diet
- The Slow Cook Composting Videos
- Things to Compost
- U.S. Composting Council
- Urban Composting Guide - NYC
- Urban Home Composting
- ► Local & Sustainable Blogs
- Chefs Collaborative Blog
- Chelsea Green News
- Cincinnati Locavore
- Cook Here and Now
- Cookin' in the 'Cuse
- Eat Close to Home
- Eat Local Challenge
- Edible Nation
- Farm to Philly
- Food Person
- Foodshed Planet
- Forage Oakland
- Hen and Harvest
- I Heart Farms
- Little Compton Mornings
- Our Farm Adventure
- Retrovore
- Sugar Mountain Farm
- Yankee Food
- ► Local & Sustainable Resources
- 100 Mile Diet
- Acres USA
- Alternative Farming Systems: USDA
- Carla Emery--Country Living Encylopedia
- Center for Bioregional Living
- Cheapavore Challenge--New York Magazine
- Community Roots Boulder
- Dark Days Challenge
- Ecological Farming Association
- Feeding a Family from the Home Garden via Garden Rant
- Food Routes.org
- Foodies' Ideal: Local and Organic
- Fresh
- Green Thumb, NYC
- Technology, Nature and Sustainable Agriculture
- Yale Sustainable Food Project
- ► Local Food Sources
- Arlington Farmer's Market
- Community Supported Agriculture (D.C. Area)
- D.C. Area Farmer's Markets
- D.C. Area Meat Sources
- D.C. Food Finder
- Eat Washington
- Eat Well Guide
- Forest Fed Pork
- Freshfarm Markets
- KOL - Grassfed Non-Kocher & Halal
- Local Foods - CSAs
- Local Harvest
- Maryland's Best
- Mt. Pleasant Farmer's Market
- Smith Family Farm - Beef
- So. Maryland So Good
- South Mountain Creamery
- Takoma Park Farmer's Market
- The Organic Butcher
- Wild Green Yonder
- Winter Farmer's Markets D.C. Area
- ► Making Bread
- ► Municipal Composting
- ► Pastured Food
- ► Professional Chefs
- ► Raw Milk
- ► Sausage Quest
- ► Soil Issues
- ► Suburban Farming
- ► The Buzz About Urban Bees
- ► The Case Against Pesticides
- ► The Last Fish in the Sea
- Beyond Salmon
- Blogfish
- Blue Ocean Institute
- Carl Safina
- Choosing Wisely: Shrimp
- Collapse of Fish by 2048
- Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions
- Deep Sea News
- Earth Echo - Alexandra Cousteau
- Ecofish
- Environmental Defense Fund Seafood Selector
- Farmed and Dangerous
- Farmed Salmon Exposed
- Fish or Cut Bain
- FishBase
- Fishonline
- Food & Water Watch Seafood Buying Guide
- Greenpeace Report on Supermarkets (pdf download)
- KidSafe Seafood
- Lobster Conservation
- Mercury Calculator
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
- No Fish in My Dish
- Oceana
- Omega3 Sources
- Perils of Aquaculture
- SeaWeb
- Shark Finning - Daily Kos
- Sustainable Seafood Recipes
- The Green Guide
- The Winding Glass
- The World Fish Center
- ► The School Lunch Disaster
- 2009 School Nutrition Dietary Assessment: American Dietetic Association (pdf)
- 2009 School Nutrition Dietary Assessment: USDA (pdf)
- Bill to Ban Junk Foods in Schools: Rep. Woolsey
- Chef Ann Cooper on Ted Video
- Child Nutrition Act Re-Authorization
- Child Nutrition Initiative
- Child Nutrition Reauthorization Recommendations (pdf)
- Demand increasing for subsidized meals
- Fed Up: The School Lunch Project
- Fod Research and Action Center
- GAO Report on School Lunches: 2003 (pdf)
- Improvements to School Meal Safety Needed
- Institute of Medicine School Meal Standards
- Institute of Medicine: Review of National School Lunch Program
- Jackie's School Food Blog
- Junk Food in Schools: Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Lobbying in School Lunches: Video
- National School Lunch Program: USDA
- Nemours: Nutritious Lunches
- Rethinking School Lunch: Center for Ecoliteracy
- Sam Kass on school meals
- School Lunch Initiative
- School Lunch Politics: Susan Levine
- School Lunch Program: Center for Science in the Public Interest
- School Lunch Reform
- School Lunch Resources: About.com
- School Lunch Talk
- School Lunch Talk
- School Nutrition Association
- Selling Obesity at School
- That Lunch is Nasty
- Time for Lunch
- Who Benefits from School Meal Subsidies
- ► Thinking About Food: Resources
- Ag Observatory
- American Farmland Trust
- Center for Food Safety
- Community Alliance with Family Farmers
- Environmental Working Group
- Farm and Food Policy Project
- Food and Society Fellows
- Food Democracy Now
- I Love Farms
- National Family Farm Coalition
- Nina Planck
- North American Food Policy Council
- Oldways Preservation Trust
- Organic Farming Research Foundation
- Public Health Action
- Sustainable Agriculture
- The Baum Forum
- The Obamas' First Harvest
- What the financial collapse can teach us about the food system
- Women, Food & Agriculture Network
- ► Threatened Planet Earth
- All Our Stuff -video
- Benefits and Costs of Climate Stabiilzation
- Climate Change & Food Supplies
- Climate Change & Reproductive Rights
- Climate Progress
- Copenhagen Diagnosis
- Dire Climate Changes Predicted
- Enviro Cost of Shipping Groceries
- Global Change.gov
- Hell on Earth
- Impacts of Global Warming
- Implications of Climate Change for Food Crops
- Is Local Food Really More Enviro-Friendly?
- Paul Krugman on Climate Change
- Stabilize at 350 ppm
- Strategies to Address Global Warming
- Tappening: A Crusade Against Bottled Water
- The State of Climate Science
- ► Traditional Farming
- Farmer's Almanac
- Farming Friends
- Four Season Farm - Barbara Damrosch & Eliot Coleman
- Grow Better Veggies - Love Apple Farm
- Henbogle
- Log Cabin Homestead
- Maria Rodale's Cooking and Views
- Moonmeadow Farm
- New Farm
- Notes from Zone 4
- Sheep Woman
- Sugar Creek Farm
- The Beginning Farmer
- The Rural Blog
- Tiny Farm Blog
- Touch the Earth Farm
- Two Frog Home
- Wooly Pigs
- ► Treading Lighter on Planet Earth
- Bee Creative
- Born Famous
- Carfree Family
- Casaubon's Book
- Confessions of a Hoarder
- Crunchy Chicken
- Down with Basics
- Eco-Coach
- Effervescence
- Everyday Simplicity
- FoodShed Planet
- Freecycle
- Green as a Thistle
- Green Guerillas
- Groovy Green
- Hedges Happenings
- Lighter Footstep
- Little Blog in the Woods
- Living Plastic-free
- Mother Nature Network
- My Flight from the Grid
- No Impact Man
- Riot 4 Austerity
- Self Sufficient Urbanite
- Suburban Entwife
- Take a Bite Out of Climate Change
- The Compact
- The Slow Movement
- World Watch
- ► Urban Farming
- Backyard Chickens
- City Farmer
- City Planning for Food
- City Slicker Farms
- Common Good Gardens D.C.
- Edible Estates
- Farming the Concrete Jungle
- Field to Fork
- Food Deserts: Detroit
- Going Off Da Grid Janice
- Growing Home - Chicago
- Growing Power
- Hen Waller
- Mad City Chickens
- Murray Hill Row-by-Row: Lawn Sharing CSA
- New Urban Agriculture - NYC
- New York City - NewYorker
- Path to Freedom
- San Francisco Grow: Community Gardens
- Sharing Backyards D.C.
- SharingBackyards.com
- Sidewalk Sprouts
- Sustainable Urban Gardens
- The Food Project
- The New Farm - Chicago
- Urban Agricultural Planning
- Urban Chickens - NY Times
- Urban Farming
- Urban Garden Share
- Urban Gardening in Detroit
- Urban Hennery
- Vacant Lots - San Francisco
- Vertical Farming - Time Magazine
- Will Allen of Growing Power
- ► Website Construction
- ► Wellness
- ► With Kids in Mind
- A Generous Helping - D.C. Capitol Area Food Bank
- Better School Food
- CATCH Coordinated Approach to Child Health
- Chef Ann
- City Blossoms
- Cooking for kids in Berkeley
- Decline in School Lunch - Philpott
- Dietary recommendations for children
- Drink of Water
- Foodie Tots
- Garden of Wonders - Portland, OR
- Getting Kids to Eat Better - Grist
- Granny's Garden School
- Great Big Vegetable Challenge
- Healthy School Lunches
- Healthy Schools Campaign
- Improve School Foods
- Learning Gardens - Portland, OR
- Little Foodies
- No Lunch Left Behind
- Planet Health - Harvard University
- Pure Food Kid's Workshop
- s'Cool Food
- S.F. Student Food Guidelines
- Studio City Garden
- Sustainable Table - Teacher Resources
- Teens Cook Around the World in Boston
- The Edible Schoolyard
- Two Angry Moms
- ► Bad Things in Food
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Sounds great, Yuri