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Prescott Frost Organic Beef Venture
I love benevolent crazy people, people who just do things because they have to. Sometimes they make sense (Dickson Despommier and vertical farming). Sometimes they make no sense at all (making a farm and raising livestock in urban Oakland, which is what Novella Carpenter did—totally crazy, and she wrote a fabulous book about it called Farm City). I know benevolent insanity the moment I hear it and I heard it the moment I heard Prescott Frost's voice:
“Every acre I can change from corn to grass, the better. It’s the only way we’re going to change this train wreck that we have now,” he told me by phone last week. He was calm and direct. “My mission is to change ...
Posted in Beef, Business, Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Food Politics Tagged agriculture, farming, grass fed, Opensky, organic beef, Prescott Frost Organic Beef Comments closed
Maine’s Lobster Currency
Posted in Article, Food Politics, Seafood Tagged conservation, fishing, lobsters, new york times Comments closed
Gluten-Free Brioche
I accidentally upgraded my wordpress account and it wreaked havoc. Lost all kinds of posts and it broke countless links. F@$#! One of the many post sent off unanchored into the ethernet was this guest post (and photo) by freelance writer Stephanie Stiavetti. As with her gluten-free fried chicken, enough people have asked about it that I'm reposting it again. I've really only recently become aware of what a rotten disease celiac is, especially for people who love to cook, and to eat, and to write about it. This post with Carol Blymire (alineaathome.com) describes the situation, um, vividly (the post also has glutenfreegirl's awesome pizza dough recipe). It's also impressed on me how important it is for chefs to understand celiac disease and gluten-free cooking. Stephanie Stiavetti, a social media consultant and reluctant techie ...
Posted in baking, Bread, Gluten-free, Guest Post, Recipes Tagged bread, brioche, gluten-free bread recipes, how to make brioche, recipe, Stephanie Stiavetti, wasabimon Comments closed













