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Home-canned green beans sicken Ohio man, grandson Posted on September 18, 2008 by Doug Powell A Crestline, Ohio, man and his grandson remain hospitalized in Mansfield and Akron with foodborne botulism. The Mansfield News Journal reports that the two remain in hospital after eating home-canned green beans last weekend.

Botulism, babies and bad advice Posted on August 31, 2008 by Doug Powell Amy and I don’t really disagree about much. But we can each get moody and self-absorbed and go after each other. Especially at the end of 20-hour drives.

Federal lawmakers are looking to reform the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates drugs and 80 percent of the food Americans eat.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulates the other 20 percent of food—generally meat.  Despite that the FDA monitors the overwhelming majority

Application to Onderstepoort Biological Products for the position of Chief Operations Officer August 20th, 2008 by Ben Trovato Dear Sir, I have always had an abiding interest in biological products, particularly those that you can eat.

I didn’t know French people had discovered enchiladas, and much less those you can buy in the grocery store. That’s one food I often crave when traveling for an extended period in France, and it’s my standby order at my first visit to any Mexican restaurant.

A duck at Fish Pond Lake. In Letcher County Kentucky.

hey i saw my reflection!

Home canning is all the rage. Eating locally is in, and doing so year-round pretty much requires some kind of food preservation. No one’s freezer space is unlimited, and home canning is a great way to preserve the harvest. It seems every food blogger is canning and offering recipes for the foods she’s canned.

Harvard Gulch Park, Denver