Does red meat cause cancer? How about heart disease? Or could we solve global warming if we just stopped eating beef? Every day the headlines declare another reason not to eat meat. But I’m thinking of three million reasons why red meat has been very, very good to the human race. That would be about […]
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More than a month ago the kids in my “food appreciation” classes here in the District of Columbia peeled a bunch of turnips and turned them into sauerruben, basically the turnip equivalent of sauerkraut. The turnips were mixed with sea salt and pressed into a heavy-duty plastic bucket, where they have remained in one of […]
Tags:fermentation·German·kids·meat·turnips
I was preparing to grind meat for sausages yesterday and for the second time in two weeks called my local Whole Foods for pork shoulder (aka pork butt) only to be told there wasn’t any. That’s not a problem any more. We are so used to the local Whole Foods not having what we need […]
Tags:butchering·flavor·meat·pork·Whole Foods
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