What do teachers do to prepare for the new school year? At the private elementary school where I teach my food food appreciation classes, one of the things we do is hold an assembly with the school nurse and study the health problems of every kid in the school who has one. These can range [...]
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Summer is winding down to its final hours and of course that means back to school. As teacher of the “food appreciation” classes in the after-school program at a certain private elementary school here in the District of Columbia, I was invited to join in on some the faculty preparations. One of those was a [...]
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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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