A client ordered a last-minute dinner party for 10 and my wife found this tantalizing recipe for salmon stew in Houghton Mifflin’s The Best American Recipes 2005-2006. Turns out the dish originates right here in the District of Columbia at Kinkead’s, widely regarded as one of the city’s best seafood joints. Normally we would pass [...]
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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