Flavor magazine, covering food news in the Washington, D.C., area, asked me to recap what I’ve learned about the food D.C. serves in its public schools since I first spent a week some months ago as an observer in the kitchen of my daughter’s elementary school. Of course, if you ‘ve been reading this blog, or [...]
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Renee Catacalos, publisher of Edible Chesapeake magazine, yesterday e-mailed all her fans to deliver some devastating news: after just four years of delivering the best coverage of local, sustainable food in our area, she is closing the magazine. Edible Chesapeake is part of a family of publications delivering similar content about the good food movement [...]
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In the last week I made meals for 30 for our Schoolyard Greening Clinic and a full-blown dinner for 50 parents at the elementary school where I teach ” food appreciation.” In between were meals for personal chef clients, breakfasts and school lunches for our 7-year-old and dinners to fulfill our policy (hope) of sitting [...]
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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