D.C. isn’t a state, but now it’s going to have its own state fair. A group of local food bloggers, including our friend Amelia Showalter, have organized the event to take place on the same day as Columbia Heights Day, with all kinds of contests to judge baked goods, pickles, jams, tastiest tomatoes, “most funky looking [...]
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Here it is, the winning entry in the national Cooking Up Change contest, high school division, a grilled mult-grain quesadilla with tepary beans prepared by a Native American team from the Tohono O’odham nation in Arizona. Tepary beans are a traditional ingredient to the Tohono O’odham people and this quesadilla wowed the judges gathered for [...]
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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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