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Corn, tomatoes highlight midsummer meal

August 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Farmers markets, local food

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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Roundup: Pharma-food; local growers, local harvest

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Food in the news, Roundup, local food

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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