This is the last week in Mexico on our virtual world food tour so I had the kids in our “food appreciation” classes grinding again in the molcajete to make one of our favorite foods, this spicy Mayan pumpkin seed dip. Well, I’m not sure the Mayans actually made this dip. But they may well [...]
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Where did the people of Mexico learn to speak Spanish? The answer is simple enough: the Spanish conquistadors who invaded and subdued Mexico hundreds of years ago. But the question points up the fact that there were people living in what we now call Mexico long before the Europeans arrived. Whether Olmec or Aztec or [...]
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Kids love working with their hands, which makes tamales–mixing the dough, wrapping it in corn husks–the perfect assignment for our “food appreciation” classes. This week on our virtual world culinary tour we are in Puebla, a city south of Mexico City known for its colorful ceramics and its clever chefs. But really, tamales are almost [...]
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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