I’m a big believer in eating what’s ripe in the garden. That may mean eating lot of okra, or squash, or tomatoes at any given time. But sometimes, if your garden is as big as ours is, the amount of produce coming ripe is overwhelming. It’s times like this I wish we had a chest [...]
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The truth is, we almost always have more food growing in the garden than we can possibly eat at any one time. This is especially true as the temperatures grow warmer. All at once, our pretty little greens–the mustards and Chinese greens especially that we planted back in March–start to grow very tall and begin [...]
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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