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AS GOP politicians take the school-lunch debate to new lows, perk up with berry ice cream

School lunches are notoriously dismal—warmed over processed dreck. How depressing that state-level GOP politicians are rallying round the lunch-room status quo. Kurt Michael Friese cheers up with homemade berry ice cream.

From “local” Lays to Oprah’s KFC promo, hypocrisy abounds in the food world

Everyone’s a little bit of a hypocrite, but the food industry takes the cake, says Kurt Michael Friese. The recent declaration that megabrand Lay’s potato chips are “local” send him to his kitchen to whip up some real local chips—plus an easy recipe.

In the lush dirt of Iowa, community grows alongside veggies

Think of Iowa farms, and most folks get images of vast cornfields devoid of people. Things couldn’t be more different at ZJ Farms, near Iowa City.