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Drink Real Milk!: A man in Bend, Oregon pours raw Jersey cow milk into a glass container. Real Milk! A man in Bend, Oregon pours raw cow milk from Central Oregon Jersey Farm into a glass container. Dairyman Bill Sieburg offers consumers cow shares on his dairy farm in order sell the buttery unpasteurized milk. Read about it here: http://foodlorelibrary.com/quick_bites/2010/08/the-skinny-on-real-milk

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A Strawberry Celebration

By Mindy Moreland

Gift of Strawberries: Photos by Samantha Archer & Kimberly Huyett

A Sybaris Spring

By Foodlore Library

It’s 1 p.m., and Matt Bennett, Chef and co-owner of Sybaris restaurant on 1st street in Albany, has spent all morning meticulously stuffing beef and lamb into casings to make handmade sausage. When I arrive in the afternoon, he's onto other tasks in the kitchen: pureeing asparagus for crab, asparagus ravioli. A pot of chicken stock and spring artichokes simmers on the stove.

Putt-Putt's Legendary Lobster Bake

By Tara Barker

The lovely thing about families is that we all have traditions, which, while we're in the thick of them, seem perfectly normal and just what we do. But sometimes, through no fault of our own, traditions end. Then we are handed bittersweet hindsight, and in seeing our traditions again through fresh, almost naive eyes, we realize the wondrous, unique nature of what we had for so long thought was simply commonplace.

Mom's Rhubarb Crunch

By Jenie

On Mother's Day, this story is to honor my mother who is a holy terror in the kitchen. I inherited her furious flare for throwing food around and leaving the kitchen resembling a war zone, yet winding up with something truly delicious!

My Artichoke Life

By Fiona Lapham

Morellino Artichoke

Recently, while attending a wedding in Chicago, I was chatting with my two female cousins during the cocktail hour portion of the event. We teetered in our high heels while trying to gracefully balance champagne glasses, various passed hour d’oeuvres and cocktail napkins in our hands.

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