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Family Farms

  Gaining Ground Forrest Pritchard is a seventh-generation family farmer (skip this intro and read his guest post below if you're pressed for time). His farm, Smith Meadows, is in Berryville, Virginia. The guy is clearly a lunatic, as his new book, Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm, shows (here's the Publishers Weekly review of the book). He's also started a blog (because he has so much time on his hands)—read this excellent post on What NOT to Ask the Grower at Your Local Market, it's hilarious. Thanks to our mutual friend, Carol Blymire, Forrest offered to write a guest post I'm proud to put up here. I love to write about my region's farmers, such as livestock farmer Aaron Miller and a record store clerk who got it in his head ...

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On Schmaltz and Digital Publishing

Schmaltz is getting ready for book form. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Schmaltz, chicken fat rendered with onion, an initial "cover" photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

By contractual agreement with Little, Brown, venerable publisher of so many of my favorite authors, I will be UNPUBLISHING The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song to a Forgotten Fat tomorrow morning, so that Little, Brown can roll out the book in hardcover this coming August. So, if you want it for your iPad or iPad mini at the lowest price you'll ever see it, get it now (it's received nothing but critical raves, I'm proud to say, and is being offered at half the price it will go for electronically in August and for one-quarter its hardcover jacket price). If you already own it, don't delete it from your device and ...

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Mother’s Day D-R Kitchen Tool Bundle

dudes So here's the kind of Mom my wife and collaborator, Donna, is. On Saturday, at 5:30 she had just showered and was getting ready for a 6:30 party when her 17-year-old daughter asks if she, Donna, can take her to get that smart phone upgrade as hers, daughter's, is broken. The teenaged daughter is not the most appreciative member of homo sapiens, remember, and Donna would not be unreasonable to say "I'm not dressed and we're going out soon; this can wait till tomorrow," but instead, she says, "Sure, hon, but we have to hurry." Here's the kind of wife Donna is. For Mother's Day a few years ago, I bought her a really good wheelbarrow. She was ecstatic, and made googly eyes at me. I felt so lucky. A wheelbarrow! Mom's Day is important. If your wife is happy and makes you ...

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Polish Kitchen

"From a Polish Country House Kitchen" is a great addition to any kitchen library, via Serious Eats. 

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Pink Lady
(from a cool new digital book)

Ingredients for a Pink Lady; tap on each for helpful info/from 25 Classic Cocktails

I first read about a new self-published iBook, 25 Classic Cocktails, published to iTunes, when Tampa journalist Jeff Houck wrote about entrepreneurial food people turning to digital devices. Donna and I recently published The Book of Schmaltz to the iTunes app store, a short cookbook on making and cooking with rendered chicken fat, an underappreciated cooking technique. Meanwhile, ingenious folks in Tampa came together to publish a book whose title requires no explanation. But the book does warrant explanation. Each recipe, some common, some I hadn't heard of (one per screen), includes the recipe, a very brief history, one instructional video of the drink made and one quick montage video. At the bottom of the screen is a fat bar that, when tapped, ...

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