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Bacon bourbon Brussels sprouts

January 25, 2012
By Ari
Bacon bourbon Brussels sprouts

Brussels sprouts with bacon is hardly a new idea, but the combination has taken off lately. The pair has become a menu meme, a darling of online recipe searches, and food TV. Given the recent spike in all things bacon, I suppose this was inevitable. But the pairing has gotten popular enough to necessitate...

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Discover Magazine disses and discusses my science

January 14, 2012
By Ari

I’ve been on quite an adventure this week thanks to a column of mine that was first posted on the Atlantic website on January 9, 2012. The column contained many unfortunate errors, from typos to grievous, many of which were pointed out online. Since...

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Just add water

January 13, 2012
By Ari
Just add water

When I met Debrilla Ratchford, she was selling sprouts at a farmers market in the parking lot of Albuquerque’s University Hospital. A former flight attendant, Ratchford holds the first patent on rolling airport luggage. Few could deny that patent #4,094,391 has made their lives...

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Milk from a freshly killed doe

January 10, 2012
By Ari
Milk from a freshly killed doe

It was nearly dark on the last day of my hunt, and I had just shot two does, a mom and her fawn. Mom heard the first gunshot but...

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Chewing on 2011

January 8, 2012
By Ari
Chewing on 2011

  Every December, the Hunter PR firm announces the results of a nationwide survey for the top 10 food news stories of the year. The list says as much...

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a good bone stock

December 31, 2011
By Ari
a good bone stock

A proper bone stock does not contain fat. This may surprise those who would just as soon make stock from rotisserie chicken carcass tossed into a pot of hot...

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Brits just want to have parsnips

December 25, 2011
By Ari
Brits just want to have parsnips

Parsnips are hardly a secret. Unlike celeriac or rutabaga, most have at least heard of parsnip, even if they can’t remember what it looks like. The fragrant taproot that...

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Mother of ‘nog!

December 25, 2011
By Ari
Mother of ‘nog!

When several packages of viscous fluid showed up on the luggage scanner, security agents at Charles de Gaulle Airport asked me to explain some items in my checked bags....

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This is why we pig out

December 7, 2011
By Ari
This is why we pig out

The urge to feast during wintertime is in our DNA. Long before your office holiday shindig was called a Christmas party, people were getting merry during the cold, dark...

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Showdown at Quail Hollow Farms

December 7, 2011
By Ari

On October 21, Southern Nevada Health District inspector Mary Oakes crashed a dinner event at Quail Hollow Farms, in Overton, Nev. When Oakes arrived, a rented catering truck was...

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Winter Squash: Three Ways

November 23, 2011
By Ari
Winter Squash: Three Ways

Winter squash–along with turkey, eggnog, and perhaps your crazy aunt Bertha–has a place at most holiday tables. But unlike the others, there is a seasonal reason for the inclusion...

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Porn on the Cob

November 23, 2011
By Ari
Porn on the Cob

The irony of corn smut is almost as delicious as the flavor. It’s a multi-billion-dollar agricultural pest that’s more valuable than the crop it destroys­. But if you’re a...

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Fatty Attraction

November 23, 2011
By Ari
Fatty Attraction

From time to time I like to cook my lady friend a nice meal and tell her “I’m gonna fatten you up for the slaughter.” But since I began...

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Time to label genetically modified food

October 28, 2011
By Ari
Time to label genetically modified food

In recent years, several polls have shown that about 90 percent of Americans support the labeling of foods that contain genetically modified organisms. That’s about as close to a...

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Offal story

October 26, 2011
By Ari
Offal story

Hunting cultures, ancient and modern alike, are full of references to the heart being the first part of an animal to be consumed. To this day many young hunters...

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