Whenever our artist friend Bob is in town we look forward to an invitation to his cabin in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley where there’s usually some rip-roaring fun to be had behind an inevitably unusual food experience. I don’t think Bob does this by design. He’s just a very opportunistic eater. In this case, a neighbor [...]
Tags: barbecue·goat·spit roasting
It may sound terribly hokey, but one of my favorite kitchen gadgets isn’t in the kitchen at all. It’s out on the deck: The spit roaster attachment on my Weber grill. It’s really just a sleave that extends the grill upward with a fitting on one side for a small motor and a groove on the [...]
Tags: chicken·free range·spit roasting
It would be unfair to ask me for my favorite cooking method because I would answer without a moment’s hesitation: spit-roasting. Nothing develops flavor quite like a well-chosen piece of meat turning slowly over (or in front of) a low fire. I wish I could say my method involved something as romantic as a stone [...]
Tags: entertaining·pork·spit roasting
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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