Would you pay $500 to have dinner with Bob Woodward? Following successful charity dinners surrounding Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration last year, Alice Waters is teaming with Washington glitterati and chefs to stage private dinners in 15 private Washington homes Jan. 24 to benefit D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table and their efforts to feed the needy [...]
Do you have room in your garden for a few extra vegetables? Or perhaps you are already growing more than you and your family can eat. Now there’s no excuse not to direct the nutritious extra food from your garden to people who can really use it. The Capitol Area Food Bank has started a [...]
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Yesterday we arrived early at a nearby hippster cafe here in the District of Columbia to select a new (used) bicycle for our daughter, who’s almost nine and just keeps growing. Turns out there was not so much competition for the kids bikes, but the place was swarming with young adults oggling and testing the [...]
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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