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Golden Turnip Soup 15 Jan 2010 | 06:45 am
I knew that joining a CSA over the summer/fall would expose me to a lot of seasonal produce that I wasn't used to cooking with. An unfortunate complication, however, was that if I didn't know how to p...
Pollanpalooza! 6 Jan 2010 | 08:23 am
Michael Pollan was on the Daily Show last night to promote his new book, Food Rules. I haven't read it (though I plan to...especially since it's cheap: $5.50!), but it sounds like a condensed version ...
Pouring on the Gags? 15 Dec 2009 | 05:16 am
I have to say, when I first saw this new commercial earlier today, I had just eaten breakfast and I came very close to spewing it back up again, so watch at your own risk: It's a new ad by the New Yo...
Turkey Transformation 5 Dec 2009 | 09:13 am
Thanksgiving was a success! The turkey got rave reviews, but I don't know how much of that really had to do with my cooking since it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. More likely it was the...
News Round-Up 2 Dec 2009 | 10:52 am
I've been meaning to do this more often. Here goes news round-up #2: Consumer Reports finds that two thirds of supermarket chickens harbor either salmonella or campylobacter (Consumer Reports, Jan. 2...
Homegrown Turkey Day 26 Nov 2009 | 08:22 am
With all my talk about beef, I almost forgot that Turkey Day is nearly here! I'm hosting dinner for the first time ever this year and I'm incredibly excited about the opportunity to cook and entertain...
The Beef Has Arrived! 20 Nov 2009 | 06:01 am
Le boeuf est arrivé! Okay, so right now you’re probably thinking that I’m as crazy as I initially thought people who cow-pool (real term) were when I first read about the concept in Time. “What a funn...
Organic Shmanic? 20 Nov 2009 | 01:02 am
A lot of articles ran this week about a study commissioned by the UK's Food Standards Agency that found that there is no significant nutritional difference between conventional and organically grown f...
Corn-Fed Beef Is Bad, Mkay? 18 Nov 2009 | 07:53 am
The cow is coming tonight! I plan to write another post on the logistics of picking up, splitting and storing one quarter of a 500 pound frozen animal later this week, but for now I want to get into t...
DIY Vanilla Extract to the Rescue! 10 Nov 2009 | 04:37 am
Ok, I know this post is long overdue (especially since Patrick took these lovely pictures in August!) It's been a busy fall, honest! But I have a lot of new post ideas and I wanted to get this one up ...
