I feel it’s important for each of us to understand the path to the plate, and in an effort to walk my talk, I accepted an invitation from Susan Hausman and Dorsey Barger of HausBar Farm in East Austin to visit on a day they had scheduled chicken processing.
Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman, is one of those iconic films imbued with symbolism–and eggs. In the movie Newman’s character, Luke Jackson–a prisoner on a Southern chain gang–proclaimed to his confined cohorts that he could eat fifty eggs, and do so in an hour’s time. How many people after seeing that movie have attempted that very move? I can think of one.
February is National Pie Month. It’s not surprising we dedicate an entire month to pie; after all, humans have loved this filled pastry since ancient Egyptian times when it was just an oat or wheat crust filled with honey and cooked on coals.
