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October 8, 2010
This week's Hands On post is different.  Usually I try to be pretty upbeat and practical.  Usually I show you a basic cooking procedure or talk about equipment choices.  We work together on the question:  How exactly can we feed ourselves and our loved ones good food day in and day out?  We demystify and get to work.  We peel and chop vegetables, wash our own greens and don't whine.
October 6, 2010
Your roving reporter is writing this post from beautiful St. Peter, Minnesota, location of the 46th annual Nobel Conference, sponsored by Gustavus Adolphus College.  The theme of this year's conference is "Making Food Good".  Yesterday an actual audience of about 5,000 people and a virtual audience of unknown size heard presentations on nutrition and public health, food security, crop and seed diversity and causes of obesity.  Food and nutrition...