Former White House aide Anita Dunn now shills for corporate food How far behind the times are we? Apparently, it was last October that food policy writer Marion Burros reported in Politico that the White House’s former communications director, Anita Dunn, is now leading the multi-million-dollar lobbying efforts of food corporations trying to put the [...]
The Slow Cook will be joining Kojo Nnamdi today at 1 pm for his regular Wednesday food program, this time talking about pickling. Why we’re talking about pickling less than two weeks before Christmas I’m not exactly sure. But apparently Kojo also wants me to say a few words about the recent demise of our [...]
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The Slow Cook has learned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will not back away from proposed guidelines for more expensive school food despite demands from Republican lawmakers that the agency eliminate any requirements that would increase the cost of the federally-subsidized school meals program. The GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee recently attached language to a [...]
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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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