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My greatest victory: 

.. has yet to come, but I celebrate small victories every day.

My signature wrestling move: 
The stuff 'em in and can 'em!
My Motto: 
To change your life: start immediately, do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
Inspirational reading: 

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock for some unabashed sensuality that swirls around some sexy food imagery. ("Do I dare eat a peach?") Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck for scientifically supported musings by a woman who loves her butter, meat, and dairy, just like me. Food in History by Reay Tannahill. Finally, a massive undertaking of the history of food, from what our prehistoric ancestors ate to what our food system currently looks like. The Food of a Younger Land, by Mark Kurlansky.  Omnivore's Dilemma, of course.  I love to read, so please send some recommendations my way!

Where I buy groceries: 
Cambridge farmer's markets
Harvest Co-op
Sherman Market in Union Square
Fromaggio
Groups I belong to: 
Slow Food Boston
Interests: 
Local and sustainable agriculture
Canning and Preserving
Baking
Homebrewing
Cheesemaking
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Sprouts!
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Hey everyone!  I've just discovered something ridiculously cool, and bonus - the thing I discovered makes a food you eat all the time tens and hundreds of times healthier! I'm talking about sprouts.  Set your scepticism aside, if you can, and push the image of ...
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Sensual Eats: My Top Five Local Aphrodisiacs
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Fair food fighters! Vintage Eats here with some sensual eats for you and your sweetie, just in time for Valentine's Day.  A little known fact about me is that, in addition to fresh local food, I have another interest: aphrodisiacs.  Aphrodisiacs are foods that incite ...
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Pie
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You wanted dessert, Food Fighters? - You got it.  I have the easiest, most fool-proof recipe for pie crust, courtesy of my mentor, JJ Gonson of Cuisine en Locale.  The following recipe is hers ...
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Hiya!
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"Garbage" Pizza
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In accordance with New Year's resolution #5, "I will make things from scratch", and also with New Year's resolution #1, "I will reduce waste in my kitchen", I bring you "garbage" pizza. I've been reading other peoples' New Year's resolutions a lot lately and have also been inspired by ...
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Urban Homesteading / New Year's Resolutions
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Hey all, Happy New Year!
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O.N.C.E. in Hell - Part 1 (Conception, Limbo, Lust)
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Hellions, It's been a long and glorious descent and it's taken me awhile to wrap my mind around it.  Truth be told, I've never had the opportunity to be part of something so unique.  Moreover, I've never put so much of myself into a project.&...
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Dante's Inferno: The Food
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One the first questions we're often asked about our locavore interpretation of Hell is "is it going to be spicy?".  No, friends, that would be too simplistic.  Dousing everything ...
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Dante's Inferno: The Pre-show, or Purgatory, if you will
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O.N.C.E. in a great while, we are presented with an opportunity to do something so cool that we cannot help but cover our mouths in awe and jump up and down, while nodding ...
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You're Invited to Go to Hell
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Libations!
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Sensual Eats: My Top Five Local Aphrodisiacs
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JJ Gonson, everybody!
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Thank you for the additonal notes! xoxo Jen (your humble myrmadon)
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Pie
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Footprint
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@Anon 1 - yay!  It's hard to go wrong when you know exactly what's in your food. @Anon 2 - Yep!  I've been lucky enough to find locally grown beans and grains here in Cambridge.  I second your suggestion to try and find grains grown close ...
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Next post it is!
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There are MANY garbage desserts out there!
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And for the vegetarians among us..
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All of the dishes I mentioned can be made vegetarian just by omitting meat.  Pasta is delicious just tossed with olive oil or a tomato sauce.  Soup is wonderful with vegetable broth, carrots, onions, and potatoes, plus some beans and rice from your pantry.  There are ...
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Nope!
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Tzatziki = yogurt + mint + cucumber Hummus = chickpeas + tahini (in a jar) + lemon juice Indian = pan-roasted cumin seeds + cinnamon + coriander + garlic + fennel seeds + mustard seeds.. *sigh* the list goes on.  But there are easy-to-do Indian dishes at home, like cumin-scented okra.  Aforementioned pan-roasted cumin seeds ...
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I wish I had a backyard!
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I also grew up in a suburb of Milwaukee. And I also will have chickens one day. Jake and I have a lot in common :-)
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Interview with an Urban Chicken Farmer
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Donation
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I just donated and am going to keep agitating so that others do, too.  I want in on this yard-sharing business.
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Fight! Help Hyperlocavore raise money
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HA
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You know, I get a little rowdy every time I drink mead.  You probably could send me off to war.
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Urban Homesteading / New Year's Resolutions
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Totally ate this for New Year's
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.. but mine didn't have any oregano or red pepper flakes.  Just sauteed some onions in bacon fat (mm mm), threw rice in the rice cooker, put black-eyed peas into the pot with some diced ham e voila!  Mix all ingredients together and you have Hoppin' John.  ...
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Fair Food Fight Recipe: Hoppin' John
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How to Argue the Case for Raw Milk
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In Eau Claire, Wisconsin, yesterday, four-hundred and fifty people showed up to offer 10 hours of testimony on state bills that would legalize the sale of raw milk in the Dairy State. According to WSAU Radio in Wausau,
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Raw Milk: A Watershed Moment in Wisconsin?
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The raw milk fight has been heating up over the last year, with various states moving to legalize sales of raw milk. Raw milk dairy farmer Michael Schmidt's fight and win in Canada has certainly been encouraging to raw milk enthusiasts, and the publication of
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Fair Food Fight on Eco Chat: March 8
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This Monday, your faithful blogger El Dragón (a.k.a Barth Anderson) will appear on Eco Chicago's Eco Chat at 8:00 PM Central. The ...
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Organic Farmer Reports on MOSES Organic Conference
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Chris Blanchard's report on the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference in la Crosse Wisconsin, held last weekend. Via his blog, Eat Better News
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How Big is a "Factory Farm"?
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I was reading this Introduction to a new book by journalist David Kirby called Animal Factory: ...
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The Utne Reader: Small Grocery Stores Are Too Big
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Eric Utne has a bone to pick with Linden Hills Co-op, and pick he does, in the magazine that he formerly edited, The ...
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Big Meat Flexes on Capitol Hill: Save Our Antibiotics!
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Katie Couric's CBS News series on antibiotic-use in livestock has turned up the grill under the US ...
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Deadline Approaching: Comments on GE Alfalfa URGENTLY Needed
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The USDA extended its extension for hearing public comments on whether or not, upon appeal by Monsanto, that company's new GE RoundupReady alfalfa should ...
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Webinar for Organic Farmers on New USDA "Pasture" Rule
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Via Jim Riddle at the University of Minnesota's Organic Ecology A Look at the Newly Released Organic Pasture Rule Webinar by eOrganic Join us for a Webinar on March 17 Space ...
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Walmart: The Answer to Locavore Prayers?
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Walmart's gettin' serious about hitting the high-end, fresh supermarket market. Via Lee Zukor on Twitter comes this Atlantic article by Corby Kummer, The Great Grocery Smackdown
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Sprouts!
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Hey everyone!  I've just discovered something ridiculously cool, and bonus - the thing I discovered makes a food you eat all the time tens and hundreds of times healthier!

I'm talking about sprouts.  Set your scepticism aside, if you can, and push the image of the crunchy hippie out of your head.  Sprouting wheatberries and certain beans is super easy and adds a nutritional blast to your meals.  Supposedly sprouting unlocks nutritients in the grains and beans that your body normally wouldn't be able to access in dried or cooked forms.  For nutritional specifics and also, for a list of beans that you shouldn't sprout, see this Wiki article.

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Sensual Eats: My Top Five Local Aphrodisiacs
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Fair food fighters! Vintage Eats here with some sensual eats for you and your sweetie, just in time for Valentine's Day. 

A little known fact about me is that, in addition to fresh local food, I have another interest: aphrodisiacs.  Aphrodisiacs are foods that incite passion.  They can range from the mundane (potatoes and onions) to the bizarre and exotic (Tiger's penis and Spanish fly).  Foods become known as aphrodisiacs not only because of their chemical and nutritive properties, but even simply because of their shape! 

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Pie
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You wanted dessert, Food Fighters? - You got it.  I have the easiest, most fool-proof recipe for pie crust, courtesy of my mentor, JJ Gonson of Cuisine en Locale.  The following recipe is hers - so don't go giving me credit for it - and is the simplest way to crank out pie crust that I've seen.  I used to find pie crust intimidating, but really, all you need is a food processor. 

Sweet pie crust

1 c. flour

1/3 cup ice water

1 stick of butter

1 Tbsp. sugar

Saran wrap

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Hiya!

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"Garbage" Pizza
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In accordance with New Year's resolution #5, "I will make things from scratch", and also with New Year's resolution #1, "I will reduce waste in my kitchen", I bring you "garbage" pizza.

I've been reading other peoples' New Year's resolutions a lot lately and have also been inspired by someone saying that they wouldn't go out to eat if there was food in the fridge.  Tonight, I was tempted.  I fermented and cooked all day, and, frankly, I didn't really feel like doing anything else.  When I opened my fridge, though, I couldn't deny the fact that I had a lot of good food that was slowly getting... bad.

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Urban Homesteading / New Year's Resolutions
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Hey all, Happy New Year!

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O.N.C.E. in Hell - Part 1 (Conception, Limbo, Lust)
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Hellions,

It's been a long and glorious descent and it's taken me awhile to wrap my mind around it.  Truth be told, I've never had the opportunity to be part of something so unique.  Moreover, I've never put so much of myself into a project.  Now that it's over, I feel vulnerable - almost raw - like I've released a significant part of me.  My immediate response after O.N.C.E. in Hell on Thursday night came as God - played by JJ's husband, Anthony, - began playing the sitar in Heaven.  As I watched the aerialist, Beatrice's, routine,  I couldn't control the tears any more.  After going through two months of planning and a week of execution, my catharsis was this beautiful star dancing through sitar notes. 

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Dante's Inferno: The Food
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One the first questions we're often asked about our locavore interpretation of Hell is "is it going to be spicy?".  No, friends, that would be too simplistic.  Dousing everything in Sriracha would be the culinary equivalent to Dante licking the inhabitants of every level with infernal flames.

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Dante's Inferno: The Pre-show, or Purgatory, if you will
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O.N.C.E. in a great while, we are presented with an opportunity to do something so cool that we cannot help but cover our mouths in awe and jump up and down, while nodding our heads in assent like bobble head dolls.  One such opportunity appeared right as I began my apprenticeship with Cuisine en Locale.  JJ mentioned that she had just seen an electric performance of something called "The Donkey Show" (donkeys?

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You're Invited to Go to Hell
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O you who reach this house of suffering, be careful how you enter, whom you trust; the gate is wide..

Before me nothing but eternal things were made, and I endure eternally. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.