Perennial Plate
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Twins' desert solitaire with organic veggies [VIDEO]
In Utah canyon country, 70-year-old twins Bill and Bob Stone live off the grid, grow organic vegetables, and give tours of Native American ruins.
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Foraging in the Land of Enchantment [VIDEO]
Daniel Klein learns how to forage for edibles in the woods from a nomadic University of New Mexico professor.
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Hunting feral pigs in Texas [VIDEO]
Nonnative feral pigs in Texas cause millions of dollars of damage each year and wreck local ecosystems. The best way to keep them from running hog-wild so far is to hunt them -- so I join in on a Texas-style hog hunt to find out if they're as delicious as they are destructive.
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Gulf shrimping after the BP oil spill [VIDEO]
The future of fishing and shrimping in the post-BP Gulf may still be up in the air, but through the lens of one resourceful fisher we can at least confirm one thing: The food is still awesome.
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Rebuilding New Orleans with urban farms and hot jazz [VIDEO]
This video tells the story of New Orleans residents who returned after Hurricane Katrina to rebuild the city and started growing food in abandoned lots
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Hungry for catfish? Stick out your hand [VIDEO]
You gotta love Mississippi: It’s a land of traditions, where tamales are popular and sticking your hand in a giant catfish’s mouth is a reasonable way to catch it. We experienced both on our way through the piney woods and rivers of the Magnolia State. Mississippi lived up to its other nickname — the Hospitality […]
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Mushroom hunting and banjo pickin’ in the Ozarks [VIDEO]
I find a lot of the stories for The Perennial Plate by searching the internet — but when I stumbled upon banjo-playing mushroom farmers Curly Miller and Carole Anne Rose, I immediately fell in love. Then I learned that their operation is all organic, which gave me all the reason I needed to make the drive […]
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Frog hunting at night in Arkansas, with some guys I met on YouTube [VIDEO]
Looking at that pair of legs, you just want to eat them.Photo: Barclay NixIn this week’s video, I joined some guys from Arkansas who I met on YouTube for a night of catching frogs. It was precarious. We showed up around 10 p.m. in a small town near Jonesboro, Ark. Better judgement may have suggested […]
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Splendor in the grass at an Iowa activist’s dairy farm [VIDEO]
Last year, we created 52 episodes about sustainable and adventurous food in Minnesota. For the final episode of this past season, we announced our plans to take this web series on the road. And with this episode (No. 53!) we start a whole new round of weekly videos about real food across America. Traveling with my camerawoman […]