This marks the Slow Cook’s second appearance in Edible Chesapeake since the magazine resumed publication earlier this year. My assignment: challenge a local chef to design a budget meal around locally-grown ingredients. If you read the piece, you’ll notice right off that I took a somewhat different approach than most of these chef challenges. First […]
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Here’s a sobering look at the devastation visited upon organic farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin by this summer’s historic floods. Note that organic farmers favor the bottom lands, where soil is richer but the risk of getting washed out is highest. Most of these farmers did not have flood insurance, and a lot of that […]
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Tom Philpott and the Ethicurean are in a bit of a snit over a New Yorker article about extreme local eating in the Big Apple and I don’t get it. Ethicurean finds it condescending. Philpott calls it “an exercise in glibness over depth.” Are we creating a new sacred cow here around the idea of […]
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