With Thanksgiving now only weeks away, we went looking for some of the best locally-raised, all natural turkeys we could find, and Autumn's Harvest Farm in Romulus is one of the few places that everyone seems to love. Their pasture-raised meats are used by some of the best chefs in our region, including Deb Whiting at Red Newt Wine Cellars & Bistro, and previous podcast guest Sam Izzo of Simply Red Bistro. In this podcast, we'll talk with farmer Tim Hawes about his animals and try to find out why he has some of the happiest turkeys around.
And as we continue eating our way through every Ithaca restaurant from A-Z, we finish our look back through the alphabet for restaurants that we've missed and end up at Hog's Back BBQ, which has officially taken over the space formerly occupied by Pangea. We were pleasantly surprised by the experience, and have all the details you need to know. Plus we've got the latest news on new restaurant openings in Ithaca and upcoming food events.
We've decided to make this our last full-length episode of 2009 so we can take some time off to rework some details behind the scenes, make some upgrades and improve the Eating Ithaca experience for everyone. But we're not gone for good, and we'll have a lot more blog entries and even a few mini-episodes of the podcast for you in the coming months.
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For this episode, we're going behind the scenes with Operation Frontline, a part of Share Our Strength, whose mission is to end childhood hunger. Operation Frontline outreach programs aim to reconnect families with food and healthy eating through free cooking and nutrition classes. To see what they're doing in the Ithaca community, we'll talk with Julia Hastings-Black, program director for Operation Frontline with Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Edie Spaulding, who shares a personal story of how Operation Frontline classes changed the way her family cooks at home. Plus we have details on how to 