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November 20, 2009 04:35 PM EST (shared with group: November 20, 2009) — 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 . . . more
October 28, 2009 11:12 AM EDT (shared with group: October 28, 2009) — 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 . . . more
October 28, 2009 10:51 AM EDT (shared with group: October 28, 2009) — 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 . . . more
September 18, 2009 03:48 PM EDT (shared with group: September 18, 2009) — 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 . . . more
August 29, 2009 03:21 PM EDT (shared with group: August 29, 2009) — 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 . . . more
August 07, 2009 01:55 PM EDT (shared with group: August 07, 2009) — 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 . . . more
August 01, 2009 09:19 AM EDT (shared with group: August 01, 2009) — 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 . . . more
July 19, 2009 06:58 PM EDT (shared with group: July 19, 2009) — 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 . . . more
June 01, 2009 06:00 PM EDT (shared with group: June 01, 2009) — 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 . . . more
May 08, 2009 11:02 AM EDT (shared with group: May 08, 2009) — 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 . . . more
April 13, 2009 05:51 PM EDT (shared with group: April 13, 2009) — 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 . . . more
April 10, 2009 12:12 PM EDT (shared with group: April 10, 2009) — Early-spring walks in the Iowa woods are rewarding on their own. But while you  enjoy those first few sunny days after a nourishing spring rain, why not look for things that can feed your belly as . . . more
April 03, 2009 08:58 AM EDT (shared with group: April 03, 2009) — Just because April Fool’s Day just went by doesn’t mean you have to be tricked into thinking that everything you hear about wine is true.  Fear not, one fool is ready to debunk some of the most . . . more
April 01, 2009 11:44 AM EDT (shared with group: April 01, 2009) — There is a hidden tribe that exists in the middle of the North American continent.  Unlike his “civilized” or “modern” cousins, the native Iowa Gardener prefers to obtain sustenance for his family . . . more
March 17, 2009 02:26 PM EDT (shared with group: March 17, 2009) — The thing to get out of the way right off the bat is that Meritage is not a French word.  In fact it’s not precisely an English word either.  It’s a made-up marketing word, and its correct . . . more
February 27, 2009 01:27 PM EST (shared with group: February 27, 2009) — On a recent morning, I heard a report on Morning Edition that jolted my attention from an extremely delicious cup of shade-grown fair-trade organic ultra-correct joe. (Public radio and fancy coffee: . . . more
February 13, 2009 10:50 AM EST (shared with group: February 13, 2009) — Undeterred by the thorough trouncing he received last time he threw down the gauntlet, the Colonel has placed it gingerly at my feet once more, with another altogether apocryphal advertisement that . . . more
February 03, 2009 10:40 AM EST (shared with group: February 03, 2009) — Like so many, I have very high hopes for the new administration.  I expect a new deal that looks to new frontiers, offering us a great society with a chicken in every pot in a shining city on a . . . more
January 16, 2009 11:04 AM EST (shared with group: January 16, 2009) — Keep up with the world of cuisine with the upbeat, in-depth, at times outrageous "Gather Round the Table" with outspoken Real Food advocate Kurt Michael Friese.  With 30 years of experience . . . more
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