An article in today’s NYT about artisanal sausage-making starts off innocuously enough, seemingly about the difficulty of preserving this centuries-old skill of turning slowly rotting, moldy meat into tasty, savory snack material. And then the meat inspectors arrive.
shreek! shreek! shreek!
Turns out most sausage makers aren’t giving up the craft because they’re tired of smelling […]
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Chicken Man Part I: Stalking the Chicken Man
April 30, 2006. 1:00 p.m.
The Man of La Muncha and I make our way to our local farmer’s market. It’s a lovely Northwest afternoon (note: “lovely” means “not hailing and not pouring rain”. It is in fact cloudy and cool). We buy miner’s lettuce, an olive bread made from locally harvested wheat, rapini, leeks, […]
Steak-tastic! (Kinda)
In an effort to chow down on more local produce, we signed up for Planet Organics last weekend and the first box arrived today. We got the requisite seasonal veggies, and they were delicious. Started dinner with a Deep Flame Lettuce salad with local tiny tomatoes and Pt. Reyes blue cheese. The lettuce was more […]
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