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December 27, 2009 01:40 PM EST --
It used to be simple. You’d hear “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner ® ” and you’d grab a steak or some burger or a roast, cook it and eat it. No questions, no fuss. . . .
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December 25, 2009 10:38 AM EST --
This holiday brings family and friends together like very few others. Thanksgiving and Passover do as well perhaps, but that's about all (with which I am familiar) that has the ability to strengthen . . .
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November 20, 2009 04:35 PM EST --
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ~Cicero
Celebrations of the harvest have existed for as long as civilization, for indeed it was agriculture that . . .
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October 28, 2009 11:12 AM EDT --
First of all, if you will indulge me for a moment in a bit of confessed food snobbery, I just have to get this off my chest. Scampi is shrimp. It is not a recipe, not a method of preparing shrimp . . .
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October 28, 2009 10:51 AM EDT --
When beginning their preparations for the coming holidays, and considering desserts, most Americans think immediately of pumpkin pie. Allow me to suggest a second, perhaps more truly American . . .
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October 27, 2009 01:29 PM EDT --
I shall return to my usual posts on food forthwith, however this was too important not to share. It is a statement from Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong.
I have made a decision. . . .
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September 18, 2009 03:48 PM EDT --
All across the country this past Labor Day, folks gathered for picnics. That's no surprise, of course. After all, it was a holiday, and the weather was grand across nearly the whole continent. But there . . .
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August 29, 2009 03:21 PM EDT --
In 2006 Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim shook the world awake with their Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth . Now a film every bit as jarring has been realesed, about a subject that threatens . . .
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August 07, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
Wine was not invented in France (though I've known Frenchmen who would dispute that), it was first cultivated in what is now Georgia -- the Republic, not the state. But the Phocaeans who founded Marseilles . . .
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August 01, 2009 09:19 AM EDT --
We could hear the bellowing long before we could see the bovine perpetrator, a new mother cow who had somehow managed to get on the wrong side of the barbed wire fence from the herd – and therefore . . .
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July 29, 2009 03:39 PM EDT --
In 1946, when President Truman signed the School Lunch Act, he said, “In the long view, no nation is healthier than its children, or more prosperous than its farmers.” If that was a statement . . .
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July 28, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
We could hear the bellowing long before we could see the bovine perpetrator, a new mother cow who had somehow managed to get on the wrong side of the barbed wire fence from the herd – and therefore . . .
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July 19, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
Grinnell Heritage Farm is 152 years old. Andrew Dunham is the fifth generation of his family to work this land about 50 miles east of Des Moines. He is a direct descendant of Josiah Grinnell, founder . . .
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June 17, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
The chefs of “Lambstravaganza.”
The best part about my work with Slow Food USA is getting to experience new people, places, and especially great foods. . . .
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June 01, 2009 06:00 PM EDT --
Nobody likes hypocrites, despite the fact that everyone is a hypocrite to one degree or another: the smoker who tells her kids not to smoke; the closeted politician who works against gay rights; the police . . .
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May 08, 2009 11:02 AM EDT --
I had the pleasure the other day of visiting ZJ Farms , the anchor of Local Harvest CSA, which is one of the biggest in the area. Farmer (and pillar of the local food scene hereabouts) Susan Jutz . . .
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April 29, 2009 04:59 PM EDT --
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My dear friend Deborah Madison has created a delightful book called What We Eat When We Eat Alone , an investigation into one of our most intimate moments. When . . .
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April 29, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
Hi all.
Exciting news. The 1st book has been such a success the publisher has asked me to do a sequel. So I'm returning to ask y'all for more recommendations.
Gather members were . . .
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April 17, 2009 12:20 PM EDT --
The Bloomsbury Review
Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Chef Kurt Michael Friese
A Cook's Journey in the March/April issue of the Bloomsbury Review
Alice Elia wrote a glowing (if I . . .
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April 13, 2009 05:51 PM EDT --
In a recent op-ed , in The New York Times gravely informed its readers that free-range pork is deadly stuff.
Despite evidence that incidence of trichinosis is very rare in the US—about 40 cases . . .
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