For 4,000 years prior to the advent of factory-made fertilizers, the Chinese used every bit of organic matter they could lay their hands on–including their own excrement–to return to the soil the nitrogen and other nutrients their vegetable crops removed. It was only through meticulous attention to the cycle of terrestrial rot upon which new life […]
I recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School here in the District of Columbia observing how food is prepared. This is the fifth in a six-part series of posts about what I saw. You can find previous posts here, here, here and here. One unfortunate aspect of the sewer system design […]
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Would you pay $500 to have dinner with Bob Woodward? Following successful charity dinners surrounding Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration last year, Alice Waters is teaming with Washington glitterati and chefs to stage private dinners in 15 private Washington homes Jan. 24 to benefit D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table and their efforts to feed the needy […]
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