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What the CLUCK?!
Cooing chickens. Imagine the horror! The nerve of some urban farmers and their children’s feathered friends! Read my latest article on SacRag.com: http://sacrag.com/2010/01/what-the-cluck/#comments....
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The Sandwich Underground
I enter a darkened house on a run-down street. There are youth wearing black concert t-shirts, combat boots, and Chuck Taylors seated around the undecorated room rapidly ingesting the contents of...
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Book Review of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Feathers fly. Guns fire. Beets ripen. Salami cures. There’s a bit of flavorful adventure around every page in Novella Carpenter’s debut memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Just as her...
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Gram Burde’s Fresh Apple Glazed Cookie Recipe
Love for baking and for homegrown food runs in my family. I inherited my passion from a line of women: Mom, Grandma, Great Aunt, and Great Grandma. All of these women shared countless joyful moments...
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31 Days of Salad
In the spirit of living la vida locavore and eating a healthy, seasonal diet, I’m taking part in my friend, Da’s brilliant idea to post 31 Days of Salad. Today, she’s featuring my Orange, Honey &...
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Steve Hansen—City Council Candidate Speaks about the Future of Sacramento...
When a highly personable, philanthropic, 32-year-old guy from the Midwest decides to run for City Council, and gets sworn in at the local farmers’ market after passing the California bar exam, I sit up...
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Cookbook Review: The Art of Real Food by Joanne Neft and Laura Kenny
Bring the color of the farmers market into your kitchen with the help of Joanne Neft and Laura Kenny’s new cookbook, The Art of Real Food: Seasonal Recipes for Every Week of the Year. Neft and Kenny...
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Food Literacy Sandwich: Garden Pesto Tomato & Egg
September is Food Literacy Month. The nonprofit I founded, California Food Literacy Center, is celebrating—and so am I! Last week, the California Senate declared the month Food Literacy Awareness Month...
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Japanese Farm Food: A Book Review
The holidays! Time for cheer, good food, and books! This fall, a dear friend gave me a beautiful gift: Japanese Farm Food by Nancy Singleton Hachisu. At the time, I gingerly leafed through the heavy,...
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Sacramento Farmers & Chefs Project
Early this year, I walked into a party and saw a familiar face. “How do I know you?” I asked. “I don’t know. You look very familiar, too,” said the (very beautiful) face. Back and forth we went,...
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