Recently, as the Butter Bitch wrote, we met with two of the co-founders of the Crown S CSA, of which we are members, for an informal chat about eating sustainably and locally. We discussed Pollan’s book, local resources, cooking, and the challenges surrounding cooking when one’s day does not go smoothly. At one […]
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Digest: Milk woes, just say Neigh, Jane Smiley rocks
Boston Globe: New England nonorganic dairy farmers are experiencing hard times, mostly because just two companies, Dean Foods and Hood LLC, control the entire Northeast market for raw milk.
Des Moines Register: Ban on slaughtering horses again up for debate. Congress votes yes on ban. USDA votes no.
Huffington Post: Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley, chronicler of the […]
How to Do Hot Dog Party!
Okay, I promise that I will stop writing about hot dogs after this post, but I just have to tell you about this thing that Sir Loin and I do in the summer. It’s called Hot Dog Party! Now, the first rule about Hot Dog Party! is how you talk about Hot Dog Party! You […]
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