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August 22, 2010 I’m in a serious mood this morning, so be warned before reading further. The food news this week swirled around Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actions to recall a half a billion eggs due to suspected contamination by salmonella. Salmonella is a bacterium that is the leading [...] August 15, 2010 I occasionally get responses to the blog through back channels. Very few official comments posted to the blog come from sources that do not look suspiciously like robots. I thought I would share a few e-mails this week from blogs over the summer. First, Terry Link, Director of the Greater Lansing Food Bank [...] July 18, 2010 Summer time is the time for ice cream, I think. We’ve been making the rounds. Yesterday we were at the MSU Dairy store, where Diane opted for the dreamsicle milkshake (i.e. a milkshake made from dairy store orange sherbet,) while I went for the single dip of peach ice cream. The MSU Dairy [...] June 20, 2010 Kudos today to Laura DeLind and Laura Anderson. Yesterday’s open house celebrated the opening of Urbandale Farm. The farm is located in Lansing’s Urbandale neighborhood. The farm’s produce will be sold at a farm stand on the premises, primarily to Urbandale residents (who will receive a discount). It will be operated by volunteers [...] June 6, 2010 I spent yesterday afternoon at the Bloomington, IN farmer’s market. It’s considered to be one of the big success stories. The permanent facility consists of three or four covered awnings, each about thirty yards long and able to accommodate 10 or 12 vendors with plenty of room to spare. The awnings themselves were [...] April 25, 2010 Diane and I were out at Appleschram (the farm where food for Thornapple CSA is grown) yesterday late in the evening. Diane spent a fair amount of time futzing around with the new arrival, a baby lamb. (Actually now that I think of it, is that redundant? Aren’t all lambs “babies”? … But [...] April 18, 2010 Jimmy Buffet once said these prophetic words: I don’t know…. I don’t know… I don’t know where I’m a gonna go when the volcano blows. As for myself, the answer seems to be “Nowhere fast.” Smoke is pouring out of volcano in Iceland and I am stuck in Rome. My flight home was canceled and under the [...] March 21, 2010 Once upon a time there was a chicken that I liked. The chicken—at this point sex unknown—was curious, friendly, always the first to “greet” me. He was the chicken that was not completely with his flock. The chicken that stepped to a different drum. When the flock was a little older and knew [...] March 14 2010 Okay! How many of you out there love peanut butter? It turns out March is National Peanut Butter Month. I got home from work on Friday and Diane was cooking up luscious hamburgers from some of Jane Bush’s ground beef. It was a very appealing scene to see her cooking up some supper that [...] March 7, 2010 David Letterman said it: Without caffeine I wouldn’t have any personality at all. Along about 5:05 on Friday afternoon one of my work colleagues pointed out that our faculty meeting was cutting into Spring Break. The main thing that means for me is a bit more time to drink coffee and read after [...] |
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