Here’s my gift to planet earth: When I have to run errands, I leave the car in the driveway and walk. We had a couple of books that needed to be returned the the library. That would be the central library here in the District of Columbia, the Martin Luther King Jr. Library downtown. That’s [...]
There are more and more blogs appearing focused on school food. Publishing photos of school food is catching on like wildfire. But the best of them all–if I may brag on myself a little–is the one we created right here in the District of Columbia as part of Parents for Better D.C. School Food, a [...]
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I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later. But after I wrote my series of articles on the woeful state of school food in the District of Columbia, a parents group coalesced around the idea of making improvements by working directly with school food service officials and advocacy organizations such as the D.C. [...]
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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