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Charging the Fields of Michigan’s Highlands
My vehicle jig-jagged north through the misty morning fog toward the Mackinaw Bridge on a well-known route (well-known because this was the same route one would take to our Family’s get-away on the...
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A Third Pillar in the Parthenon of Beef (Not Another Ice Brick in the Wall)
The freezer in our home kitchen is filled to the gills (so to speak) with beef right now to the point where you’re dogging bullets of frozen ground beef whenever you open the freezer door. These...
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Two Schools of Tasting
This past Fall, on a trip to visit friends in Connecticut, I was afforded some time to catch up on my hobby reading whereupon I discovered (and this is really cool) that there are two schools of...
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Why I’m enamored of Microbrews, Heirloom Vegetables, and Heritage Meats
Thank goodness for Budweiser, Miller, and Coors: it’s at least part of the reason underage drinking really wasn’t a problem for me in my undergraduate years at the University (I simply didn’t like the...
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An Offer I Couldn’t–or Could–Refuse (Part I)
When my buddy Ben first planted the seed of starting a blog, it was with the idea that it would chronicle a quest to find the best meat that was being raised. If you’ve been following this blog, you...
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An Offer I Couldn’t–or Could–Refuse (Part II)
The Godfather, Paramount Pictures, 1972 As recounted in the previous post, there was before me the offer to purchase some really good beef from a Red Poll-Hereford mixed breed animal that, despite...
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On the second story of the home of one of the country’s premiere breeders of Highland cattle, I was brought back into the mythical space created in the antechambers of the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado...
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After two years into an on-going quest for the country’s best beef–involving research, field-work, and numerous tastings–we’ve been able to distill our findings into five key factors that produce the...
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Sometimes the Grass is Greener
About a half an hour south of Notre Dame, Indiana, is Grass is Greener Farm, a husband and wife operation on the plains of the Hoosier State that raises heritage livestock and poultry: beef, lamb,...
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Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older than the trees… (John Denver, “Take Me Home, Country Roads”) Last week my wife Erin, daughter Analise, and...
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