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Some highlights of last night’s dinner with friends.

Sweet corn at its fresh and local peak.
Three kinds of pasture-raised meat (beef, goat, lamb) cooked over a fire fueled with wood from the same property.
Homemade coffee ice cream with chocolate chunks.
Fruit salad made entirely of fruit from friends’ farm. The fruits included plums, peaches, pluots and an [...]

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Green eggs (no ham). An outfit in Missouri is doing large-scale production of eggs from pastured chicken, and that’s something to crow about. (KC Star)
Shrinking food print. Three questions can lead to greener eating. (KC Star)
Osage oranges. Kate Will celebrates her picnic spot in Osage County in the shade of hedge trees, aka Osage Orange. [...]

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So I said to the guy at the CSA pickup, “Got any cilantro?” and he says, “try this, papalo, it’s sort of like cilantro.” At least I think he said papalo. I wasn’t taking notes, and I should know by now always to take notes if I want to remember anything. He might have said [...]

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I must look hungry. A week after Lynn gave me a bunch of food, my weightlifting teacher gave me a bunch of apples from his tree. “Take all you want,” he said. “We’re never going to be able to use them all.” He even grabbed a large paper grocery bag, handed it to me and [...]

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My tax dollars at work. It didn’t get much attention in Kansas, but controversial pharma-food producer Ventria got a nice loan from me and my fellow taxpayers. Now they’re talking an over-the-counter product instead of saving third-world children. What a surprise! (The biggest report in the Wichita Eagle, mere mentions in KC Star, Lawrence J-W, [...]

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I love Nicoise salad (or salade nicoise, as you prefer), and the fruits and vegetables to make it are rolling in. As Michele Humes noted, it’s a dish that has a melange of variations, but I pretty much quit worrying about what’s the “right” way to make it years ago. I’m just happy when I [...]

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