Grain is one item that determined locavores often stumble over. Typically, it’s just not widely available, if grown at all. That’s why we were glad back in December to report that Rob Moutoux, third generation of local farmers, was at the Dupont Circle farmers market selling several varieties of grain he was growing near the family [...]
Tags: grains·local farming·local food
Meg Wolff has been a loyal and encouraging reader of The Slow Cook and for the life of me I don’t know why. Where Meg is a spiritually enlightened lover of whole grains and macrobiotic vegetables, I am an unreformed heathen of a meat eater. Yet we share a common belief in “real” food, in [...]
Tags: books·grains·macrobiotics·vegetables
Kids have been conditioned to expect things sweet. And smooth. And perfectly homogenized. This is a cultural phenomenon especially prevelant here in the United States where families simply do not make much food from scratch at home any more. Whole ingredients have become a rarity in favor of processed foods out of boxes. Consequently I [...]
Tags: grains·granola·seeds·sweeteners·yogurt
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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