Welcome to season four of our ’round-the-world culinary tour. My food appreciation classes have now landed in Great Britain after a gustatory sojourn in France. England, bless her heart, isn’t exactly known for her great cuisine and I wanted to start the new school year with something fresh. I turned to the trifle–and I don’t [...]
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This week we started a culinary world food tour in our “food appreciation” classes and our first stop outside the District of Columbia is the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where fall means apples. Kids love using a mechanical apple peeler. It used to be every family had one, apples were such an important food. We [...]
Obviously, anything as dangerous as a peanut butter whoopie pie warrants an explanation. Normally I try to steer clear of desserts and sweets. And these “whoopie pies”–which must look painfully familiar to anyone south of the Mason Dixon line, where Moon Pies rule–are basically death on a bun. What happened was, I’ve been conducting 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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