Wild Vermont Lobster

By Trevor Corson | December 21, 2009

Ran across Les Hook and Nova Kim from the “northeast Kingdom of Vermont” at the New Amsterdam Market in New York yesterday. I did a double-take when I saw the packages marked “Wild Vermont Lobster.” Ain’t no ocean there, folks. Of course, what they were selling was “lobster” mushrooms, harvested by hand and dried. Does anyone…

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Hate Mail & a Hat Tip from Michael Moore

By Trevor Corson | May 7, 2009

I haven’t received this much hate mail since I wrote about stabbing of lobsters with large kitchen knives. The other day I dashed off a little article for the CSMonitor’s weekly edition about how nice it is that people in Nordic countries such as Finland get free health care and top-notch universal public education. The…

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