What do you suppose was the most popular menu item on last night’s parents night dinner at the elementary school where I teach my food appreciation classes? If you said Brazilian cheese breads, you would be absolutely correct. There’s a good reason Brazilians go nuts for this little snack made of manioc flour and cheese. [...]
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Well, we pulled off another successful parents night dinner last night at the elementary school where I teach food appreciation. Close to 50 parents and their children found seats in the multi-purpose room where our crack staff of after-school counselors was primed to serve a sumptuous menu. Bowls of our fiery pumpkin seed dip had [...]
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We had a great crowd of parents, kids and staff at our “Parents Night” dinner celebrating our “food appreciation” classes. With staff plating the food and kids running the plates to the tables, everything moved like clockwork. As you can see, there’s nothing terribly fancy about the dining room. But we do dress the table [...]
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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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