Karen de Coster’s the food expert around here, and many of you with her encouragement are seeking out the lesser known and local operations, coops and farmer’s markets where you can get good food products. You can find cheese, sausage, salami, and so on makers, and eggs, chickens and vegetables. There are internet shippers to be discovered. Of course, you can make or grow your own in many cases. I’ve made my own lox, using internet recipes. When we were young, we made our own beer. We aged our beef and salamis. We raised our own ducks, geese, and pheasants. … Continue reading I Ate So Much Chicken Fat