In Latin America, food starts with corn and the arepa is another version of a corn cake that can be filled with just about anything–chicken, beef, pork, cheese, beans–to make a meal or a quick snack. In Venezuela, where our food appreciation classes are visiting this week on our virtual world food tour, arepas are [...]
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Our “food appreciation” classes arrived in El Salvador on our virtual world food tour and there’s nothing more typical on a menu in El Salvador than pupusas. Pupusas are like thick pancakes filled with any combination of meat, vegetables and cheese and like just about everything else in this part of the world they start [...]
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Don’t look now but the Obama adminstration is making good on our worst fears, ramping up the pressure for NOT less but MORE ethanol. Obama’s agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack this week announced that he is all in favor a proposal from Midwestern aggies to raise the amount of ethanol that can be blended into a [...]
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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