Podchef | March 30, 2009
In a discussion that erupted on Twitter today, I think I may have come across as some sort of neolithic agrarian rube. It is certainly hard to maintain clarity or explain rationales in 140 characters or less. While I do tend towards being a Luddite, I am actually in favor of technology. I use technology [...]
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Podchef | March 19, 2009
When the Industrial Revolution began to take hold, countless country bumpkins flocked to the cities, lured by the promise of money, a better life, some sort of future out of the dung heap. What they found was enslavement, death, disease, and crippling poverty at the hands of often cruel masters who grew wealthy on the [...]
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Podchef | March 9, 2009
Most people think of the rooster as the harbinger of dawn. Chanticleer, perched on top of the barn greeting the sunrise with lusty crowing. Those of us who raise chickens know it is far less  poetic. Roosters will crow all day and all night. In fact, the more roosters there are in any given 1/2 [...]
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