My husband writes an open letter to Michael Pollan about my growing food obsessions. Of course he exaggerates: the lot is in the East Village, not Queens; the cow is really just a calf; and our neighbors aren't complaining, they've all joined my CSA!
Posted on June 28, 2006
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