Still without internet service from Verizon, presumably until September 14, we called Comcast and they told us they could have us online within a day. We are mystified that Comcast can do this where Verizon cannot, especially since Verizon owns all the telephone lines. We are still mulling this over. Meanwhile, I took the bus [...]
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Can you hear me now? Some readers have inquired why I haven’t posted to the blog for the past six weeks. A move into new digs, while simultaneously renovating the new digs, is part of the reason. The other part is that while we moved our phone around the corner, our Verizon internet service still [...]
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Suddenly a debate over chocolate milk in school is heating up in the pages of The Washington Post. Or should I say our hometown paper has finally noticed there’s a food revolution going on in D.C. school cafeterias now that a first-grader has polled his fellow students and found–shock!–they are not drinking as much milk as [...]
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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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