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(Note for feed subscribers: This corrects title of Nabhan and Kindscher’s paper.)
I need to know more about weeds. All stars are pointing that direction.
First, there were Ed’s and Jennifer’s blog posts about their foraging for food. Then, I looked into what Gary Nabhan is all about in advance of his upcoming talk Tuesday at [...]

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When I was at the Merc this morning for a few groceries, I reached into a freezer case and pulled out a pound of MJ Ranch’s ground beef. A voice near my elbow said, “Thanks for buying our meat!”
I turned and met the speaker, Joyce Williams, co-owner of MJ Ranch, a beef cattle operation about [...]

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The menu challenge: Come up with a meal that could be prepared mostly in advance so as to be served at an uncertain time to guests who included a person who can’t tolerate gluten, eggs or dairy.
The menu decision: Chicken Marbella from the The Silver Palate Cookbook; Baked Risotto with Asparagus, Spinach and Parmesan, [...]

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Have you found that grocery shopping is trickier than it used to be? Sure is for me.
I say that as someone who does not mind grocery shopping, at least as long as I can avoid it with the throngs on Saturdays and the geriatric set on Thursdays. (That’s the day after the grocery ads come [...]

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Yes, members of the Kansas Legislature have joined the esteemed lawmakers or regulators in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio who want to spare their citizens the challenge of too much information. Specifically, they want to keep consumers ignorant of whether the milk they’re drinking comes from cows not dosed with recombinant bovine growth hormone, rBGH, which [...]

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The Casbah Market got some local ink, and now here’s my promised two cents, based on a single, brief visit and discussions with a couple of friends.
The good news
— The owners have done a good job transforming the Casbah space (even though it meant the end of an architectural aspect of some personal interest to [...]

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