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The Big Pigs of Industrial Crap Food and Drugs

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Wine of the Dead - Portugal

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The Museo della Musica and the Food of Venice's Poor

Ah, the intelligence behind the Most Serene Republic's idea of public administration!
And here's how you do the cheeks

Goat Butchery and Belgian Bier with Dave the Butcher

We had a great time at the Butchery and Belgian Bier event over at La Trappe in San Francisco’s North Beach. Dinner was nothing short of surreal. The setting, you see, was the basement bar of La Trappe, a restaurant on the fringes of San Francisco’s Italian neighborhood, called North Beach. It was rather dark, except for a corner in which a butcher table was set up. A chain with grappling hooks occupied the corner ominously. It was like a party in a dungeon. As someone who enjoys medieval festivals in Italy, this is not necessarily a bad thing, atmospherically speaking…

Spaghetti with Cherry Tomatoes and Basil

Spaghetti with Cherry Tomatoes and Basil

Don't Miss This Foodie Auction in San Francisco

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Peasants Farm Better

One of the assumptions used as a big rock to destroy any discussion of agriculture done right vs. industrial crap food production is that industrial crap food is more efficiently produced--and by golly these are the zeros, when cheap calories are in great demand and we can't afford to go back to the medieval days of agriculture for food for the people you know...

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