A new farmers market opened this month in downtown Columbia Heights, within walking distance of our home here in the District of Columbia. Once blighted by urban decay, this area around the Columbia Heights Metro station is now a bustling shopping district. The farmers market, open Saturdays only, is set in a central plaza with a [...]
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We get nearly all our meats delivered from our dairy, South Mountain Creamery. In addition to its own beef herd, South Mountain sells pork, lamb and poultry products from other local farmers. But one thing we’ve learned is that just because it’s local doesn’t always mean its good. We’ve had bacon from the farmers market that [...]
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Washington City Paper’s “Young and Hungry” column this week spills some ink in defense of our recent series, “Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen.” “Y&H isn’t quite sure how he missed this, but former Washington Post reporter Ed Bruske recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School in Adams Morgan. where his [...]
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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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