It’s turned into a family tradition, the cousins spending a day making gingerbread houses. We’ve learned one important lesson: have the houses assembled a day ahead. Otherwise you are likely to spend the morning with a hair dryer trying to get the icing “glue” that holds them together to dry. Matthew was crazy for the [...]
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The aroma of old-fashioned gingerbread baking in the oven automatically signals the arrival of Christmas. With its strange mix of molasses, cloves, nutmeg and other spices, gingerbread is an anachronism. Yet somehow it has maintained its grip on the holiday tradition. Personally, I don’t care much for gingerbread cookies or the stuff that gingerbread houses [...]
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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