There’s no gardening going on at our house these days. That all went poof! in August when we sold our house with the huge kitchen garden and moved around the corner to another building we owned as a rental property. The new (old) row house is north facing and has little or no room for [...]
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After years working as a restaurant chef in Stockholm, Michael Backman was ready for something different. He’d had it with complaining customers. He wanted to feel inspired by his work again. So the advertisement he stumbled across in a free weekly newspaper six years ago grabbed his attention: “Wanted: Head Chef for School Restaurant.” “I [...]
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Regular readers know that I am especially partial to science writer Gary Taubes and his ongoing efforts to question the prevailing notion that we get fat by eating too much and exercising too little. Taubes, along with childhood obesity experts such as Robert Lustig, are convinced that prior generations actually had it right: we get [...]
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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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