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Baked risotto with spinach and asparagus makes an easy, delicious spring dish. Recipe is a favorite, adapted from Patricia Wells’s version in the Trattoria cookbook.

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As you will see, I’ve changed the look of foodperson.com to make it more colorful–more appetizing, shall we say. If you have any thoughts on it, I’ll love to hear them.
The look also includes a spam-protection space in the comments area. I’ve added it and another, invisible-to-you “plug-in” that allows you to post comments and [...]

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I didn’t start this blog to talk about climate change, but it seems almost impossible to talk about fresh food these days without talking about climate. There are the obvious and oft-mentioned concerns about global warming, although the EPA says the U.S. food supply will probably be fine. (Here’s just one of thousands of accounts [...]

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Got my first CSA bag of the season yesterday, and it was a delight: gorgeous lettuce, asparagus, spinach and rhubarb were the highlights for me.
I was worried whether the farmers would have anything to offer, though. The rainfall over the weekend ranged from 3 to 8 inches (based on my highly informal survey), and that [...]

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Roast chicken the world’s easiest main dish to make, but these days you’ll be celebrated as a marvelous cook if you put one on the table.
You can read a lot of semi-complicated recipes, but essentially this is all you need to do:

Buy a whole Smart Chicken. (Among its other joys, it is packaged devoid of [...]

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There’s a relatively new bird on the block, the Smart Chicken. Smart Chicken, produced by MBA Poultry of Nebraska, first caught my eye at the supermarket a year or two ago because (a) it wasn’t produced by Tyson and (b) it’s label reported a couple of very positive attributes:

it was fed only vegetable feed; no [...]

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