By some sort of crazy coincidence, a reporter for the Washington Times newspaper was investigating Chartwells, the contracted food provider for D.C. Public Schools, at the same time that I was spending a week in a school kitchen discovering just how bad our school food is. Last week I published a six-part series under the [...]
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Posts from our recent series Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen, detailing how food is prepared at our local elementary school here in the nation’s capitol, currently occupy two of the top five spots as “most viewed” articles at Grist, the online environmental magazine. We’re just behind Michelle Obama’s vow to take on childhood obesity, [...]
Regular readers who tune to The Slow Cook blog for recipes and updates on my compost pile have probably been a little dismayed to see these postings turned over to stories from an elementary school kitchen. To you, I apologize. We will soon be returning to the humdrum affairs of running a kitchen garden about a [...]
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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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