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Made by Hand, Blueberry Girl, Jamberry & Blueberries for Sal

Publishers recently sent me a copy of Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World.  Written by Mark Frauenfelder, founder of Make magazine, this quick read is an overview of one family’s experience with making things by hand.  Organized by the various objects they attempt to create, each chapter is both a tutorial and [...]

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Basement Charcuterie

If you home cure meat, this might be a familiar site:

Five pounds of saucisson sec and a fifteen pound serrano-style salted air-dryed ham hanging in our basement.   Both are made from the meat of Red, the hog we slaughtered in April.  The saucisson sec will hang for three to four weeks and be taken on our [...]

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Make it Yourself: Sausage Making

You may have read Devie the hound dog’s version of making sausage.  Here’s my version of the basics.

I received the book Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman last Christmas.  Since then I experimented with making my own bacon, smoking various meats and cooking confit of all sorts.  Until recently, I had not attempted to make any sort of [...]

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Make it Yourself: Sausage Step by Step

I was writing this basic sausage making post and looking at pictures I took.  I noticed Devie in every.single.picture!  She has been an integral witness to all sausage making events so I thought it would be fun to narrate from her perspective.

Sausage making is awesome.  Every time the bald guy (Alex) brings the meat grinder [...]

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Joel Salatin: Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

“We live in an amazing country where it’s perfectly legal to feed your kids twinkies, hoho cakes, and mountain dew, but raw milk, that’s dangerous.”  So began Joel Salatin’s Saturday keynote address to the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association annual conference on February 13, 2010.  I attended the talk.  The writing below is my best [...]

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