Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

six impossible things before breakfast 133 ter buffalo and dreams of a great mozzarella. (Their names are Betsy and Beau; she pa ...

134 animal, vegetable, miracle ultra-pasteurized the product for long- distance travel. Better yet, she sug- gested, ask around ...

six impossible things before breakfast 135 Pasteurization requires three pieces of equipment: a steel pot, a heat source, and a ...

136 animal, vegetable, miracle people in the United States die each year from pathogens in our food. Sterility is obviously the ...

six impossible things before breakfast 137 gassy havoc. The effect is somewhat like eating any other indigestible carbohydrate, ...

138 animal, vegetable, miracle populations that have little else in common other than cows: the tall, lean Fulani of West Africa ...

six impossible things before breakfast 139 guess what?—lactose. These selective bugs munch through the milk, turning the lactose ...

140 animal, vegetable, miracle natural enzyme), which together cause the milk to set up into a very fi rm curd in just minutes, ...

six impossible things before breakfast 141 together in the routines of childhood. We’re hoping our kids will remem- ber us somew ...

/ can’t stand it’s just a quick about it. Growing Up in the Kitchen by camille In our house, the kitchen is the place to be. The ...

six impossible things before breakfast 143 would have been more uncomfortable to come home to parents who used the kitchen for s ...

144 animal, vegetable, miracle y 30-MINUTE MOZZARELLA 11 ⁄ 2 1 ⁄ 4 (^1) ⁄ 4 1 ⁄ 4 (If til Carroll and really does take only thir ...

six impossible things before breakfast 145 y Salt to taste y 2 pounds eggplant 2 teaspoons nutmeg Salt and pepper to taste on to ...

146 animal, vegetable, miracle y 11 ⁄ 2 1 teaspoon salt 21 ⁄ 2 Let dough rise for 30 to 40 minutes. 1 cup sliced onions ment. pi ...

six impossible things before breakfast 147 Layer the cheese evenly over the crust, then scatter the toppings of the week on your ...

10 • EATING NEIGHBORLY Late June Just a few hours north of Massachusetts lie the working- class towns of central Vermont, where ...

eating neighborly 149 world’s cheap grower of the moment. In a refreshing change of pace, the fries here are made from potatoes. ...

150 animal, vegetable, miracle were raised on pasture by an acquaintance of the owner. When Tod asked, “How’s your burger?” it w ...

eating neighborly 151 With the Farmers Diner Smokehouse and the diner itself both doing half a million dollars in business annua ...

152 animal, vegetable, miracle it out of town to a corporate bank account far away. Where I grew up, we used to call that “carpe ...