Notes from the beer tasting of Avery Brewing and Dogfish Head Craft beers for the "Calibration" dinner at Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywine, January 2010 at the Vail Cascade Hotel & Spa Comments: 0
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The newly opened Suza Baja Grill has a modern look to it's dining room that is both casual and chic. Comments: 0
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The Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywine Festival features many different components over the course of the weekend Comments: 1
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Alfresco at AltitudeVail Valley summer days are mind-blowingly beautiful. Clear blue skies, snowcapped peaks, idyllic temperatures—in other words, the perfect setting for alfresco dining. What follows is... |
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The FDA has just posted the 483″ reports from inspectors who examined the Iowa egg factories responsible for the recent Salmonella outbreak and recalls. These, as the New York Times puts it, go into "nose-pinching detail."
I happen to have a strong stomach for these kinds of things, perhaps because I have had children. Birds, like babies, produce waste. Babies create some smelly sanitation issues. But tens of thousands of birds in one place create waste on an entirely different scalefor the birds themselves, for the workers who handle them, and for people who eat their eggs.
The FDA reports make interesting reading. The inspection violations at the Hillandale facility ranged from the seemingly trivial (unsigned forms) to the disturbing (rodent holes) to the alarming (leaky manure) to the utterly damning (egg wash water testing positive for Salmonella enteriditis).
The comments on the Wright Egg facility sometimes approach the poetic...
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Hundreds have become sick from eating salmonella-tainted eggs from one of 29 brands using Wright County or Hillandale Farm eggs. Here are the numbers and codes to look for on the brands that have been recalled.

Yesterdays print edition of the New York Times carried a front-page story on the egg recalls: U.S. ties farm to Salmonella; town is tense. The reporter, Monica Davey, wrote from Clarion, Iowa, the town where the tainted eggs came from. ( > > > Egg Recall List > > >)
Her story reminded me of Eric Schlossers movie, Fast Food Nation. The film was intended as fiction, but much of what we are hearing about these egg operations makes it seem like fact.
Heres what struck me most about her article.
This flavorful and hearty black bean soup tastes like it's been simmering for days. Soak the beans overnight to cut down on prep and cooking time.
With hundreds sick and hundreds of millions of eggs recalled, how does the egg industry respond? By calling itself farmers and telling you how to cook your eggs. Here's how it should have responded.
Berries make this organic vodka drink sweetly sustainable. Try more organic cocktail recipes.
These rich and healthy muffins are the ideal way to start your day.
A twist on its traditional tomato-laden twin, white gazpacho offers a cool take on this summertime favorite.