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…
How the Avocado Became the Fruit of Global Trade
Under the volcanoes in Mexico’s Michoacán state, violent cartels are fighting to dominate a shadowy and lucrative market. One gang, called La Familia Michoacana, announced its presence about a decade ago by tossing five rivals’…
IS THE POWER LUNCH DEAD? And if it is who killed it?
When the patron saint of the Four Seasons’ Grill Room came down last year—a 19-by-20-foot Picasso curtain that had presided over the dining room since 1959—formal “power lunching,” it appeared to many New Yorkers, had…