What It Takes to Out-Sleuth Wine Fraud
By Lettie Teague For WSJ The first in a two-part series on wine fraud. A FEW WEEKS AGO the French police discovered a cache of fake Côtes du Rhône wine so large it would have…
Health Departments Continue to Sabotage Home Cooks Across the Country
Shelli Eng lives in Erie, Illinois, a village about 100 miles due west of Chicago. For years, Eng, known as the “Bread Lady,” has sold baked goods at a local farmers market and two other…
Spring Fiddle Head Ferns have risen!
FIDDLEHEAD FERNS ARE THE FIRST TASTE OF THE WILD SPRING – These were photographed by a freshwater spring in Northern Arkansas earlier this week. TODAY’S LESSON: The cool spring weather slowly brings to life…
Amazing Versitility of Lamb – Cut Comparison Chart
AMAZING VERSATILITY OF LAMB Lamb is the best looking domesticated animal on the range, friendlier than a steer and without the tough guy pig attitude. Although lamb doesn’t look like a cow or a pig…
Morel Mushroom & Wild Ramp Blini
Morel Mushroom & Wild Ramp Blini Makes 4 servings 4 Rye Blini, cooked recipe follows 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 8 ounces fresh morel mushrooms, cleaned and stems trimmed as necessary 16 small ramps, pull off…
Rye Blini
Rye Blini Makes 12 – four inch blini 1-1/2 cups warm milk (at about 110F) 1 package dry yeast 1 teaspoon sugar 1 cup all purpose flour 1 cup Bluebird Grain Farms rye flour 3…
A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative
WASHINGTON — The owner of Taco Bamba Taqueria peered out from the kitchen at the line of customers snaking around the corner at his latest spot in a suburban Virginia strip mall, and felt terror.…
First Morels of the Season Today – Mark Twain National Forest
First morels we have found in 2018! While following a baby beaver we came across a bed of these wonderful mushrooms under this tree!! SETTING THE FLAVOR OF MORELS FREE TODAY’S LESSON:…
HOW GRUBHUB ANALYZED 4,000 DISHES TO PREDICT YOUR NEXT ORDER
How Grubhub analyzed 4,000 dishes to predict your next order Today Grubhub does indeed have an algorithm that can look across a country’s worth of takeout orders and tell a user what Indian joint near…
CRISPR’D FOOD, COMING SOON TO A SUPERMARKET NEAR YOU
FOR YEARS NOW, the US Department of Agriculture has been flirting with the latest and greatest DNA manipulation technologies. Since 2016, it has given free passes to at least a dozen gene-edited crops, ruling that…