July 2010

Nestle’s Cookie Caper

by bdunn on July 7, 2010

in Be Afraid, Factory Food

So we learn at least two interesting factoids about the case of the E. coli-contaminated Nestle’s cookie dough, through the reporting efforts of ABC’s Brian Hartman: 1. Not one, not two, but at least three strains of E. coli have been linked to the Nestle’s dough. 2. Food and Drug Administration inspectors claim to have [...]

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Crop Calendar

by bdunn on July 2, 2010

in Garden, Recipes

As abruptly as June turned into July, so did the tomato harvest become the fig harvest. Suddenly we’re down from at least a dozen ‘maters a day to maybe a couple, and up to our elbows in the ancient fruit. We’re living inside an extended Iron Chef episode (if you’ve never seen the original, famous [...]

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