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Granny Smith Apple by Mr. Noded from Flickr

Reviving My Series of Food Polls With Apples! Which is your favorite?

By on May 17, 2013 in ag awareness, food, food poll

A few years ago (2010 to be  exact) the great butter and lard debate launched a fun series of food polls for my blog over the summer. Each weekend I would do a food poll. The poll could be on almost any kind of food — we talked ice cream, favorite Chicago foods, celebrating by [...]

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Ham Farms sweet potatoes

Y is for Yams or Are They Sweet Potatoes? What’s the Difference Anyway?

By on May 1, 2013 in ag awareness, food

I met Will Kornegay through social media and love that he offered to help me with my “S” post. See, Will grows sweet potatoes and was willing to help me out. But I have worked in the seed business for 15 years and really felt that I had to say S is for Seed. BUT [...]

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the kitchen at Pastaria

W is for Wheat — Semolina Can Get Chefs Talking Wheat

By on April 28, 2013 in ag awareness, food

As my friend Julie and I ate at Pastaria on Thursday night, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Chef Gerard Craft. I had to say hello to him as I had hoped to meet him last fall when a group of friends went to his other restaurant Niche one night. It is [...]

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V is for Viticulture — Cultivating Grapes for Wine Making

By on April 28, 2013 in ag awareness, food, travel

Viticulture is another one of the words that I think may not be familiar to everyone but if you drink wine, you should be really happy that viticulture exists because in a nutshell viticulture is “the cultivation or culture of grapes especially for wine making.” I have to say when I think of viticulture, my [...]

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northeastern Kansas prairie

P is for Prairie & Growing Pinto Beans on the North Dakota Prairie

By on April 20, 2013 in ag awareness, food

Since I was traveling again this week, I got behind again…. so I am going to catch up somewhat quickly. P is for prairie today, because I was traveling through a bit of prairie over the last few days. A lot of us have heard of prairies and may even get a photo in mind. We [...]

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fresh greens for sale at the farmer's market

K is for Kale — Kale is a Winter Crop & a Power Food

By on April 13, 2013 in ag awareness, food

Early on I thought of two words that I may want to write about in my K post. They were VERY DIFFERENT words. One was of course kale (bet you could guess that since I’m writing about that) and the other was just K — that’s the abbreviation for potassium and potash is really important [...]

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bar at Vino Nadoz

Great Lunch Meetup at Nadoz & Vino Nadoz

By on February 26, 2013 in food

The St. Louis Bloggers Group (#STLBloggers) had a Sunday meetup this week and the great foks at Nadoz Cafe and Vino Nadoz Wine Bar hosted us in great style! (Note the pronunciation is like the final syllables of Coronado’s since their other restaurant is in Hotel Coronado.) Thanks to Lindsay Williams Itzkowitz from Itz Linz for getting the [...]

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What can be done about the obesity crisis?

By on December 15, 2012 in food

This was in my Google+ stream this morning as I flipped around social media. I looked at the post, especially Mike Elgan’s question “What can be done about the obesity crisis?” and the photo and got to thinking. I have to say some of the comments…. I could see some have thought about it before [...]

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