Sometimes it pays to make the phone call… Over the weekend we ran into a problem with a huge number of dead mussels purchased from our local Whole Foods here in the District of Columbia. More than half the mussels we bought (and more than half the replacements Whole Foods gave us) were DOA. Before [...]
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Today’s brainteaser is to guess which of the bowls on the left contains the live mussels that we purchased for dinner last night and which bowl contains the dead mussels. If you are thinking this must be a trick question because there couldn’t possibly be that many dead mussels in the four bags we took [...]
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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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