The first thing my wife said when she heard that my food appreciation classes would be making this classic coffee cake by hand was this: “Be sure to tell the kids that it will be a lot better if they make it with an electric mixer.” We don’t use electric gadgets in our cooking classes. [...]
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Ever tried to cream butter and sugar with the back of a wooden spoon? Most people would use an electric mixer. But we don’t cotton to electric gadgets in our food appreciation classes. We do everything by hand on the theory that if kids know how to make things manually, they will better appreciate making [...]
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My wife, the baker in the family, took one look at our recent harvest of overwintered carrots and knew what she had to make: carrot cake. I know what you are thinking: There could hardly be anything more mundane than carrot cake. But trust me: once you’ve made it with carrots you’ve grown in your [...]
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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