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HomeEating Cleveland - Restaurant Reviews BlogI m Back!December 30, 2019 by Admin After almost a decade of not posting to my Cleveland blog, I m back!  I have decided to resurrect my site and begin talking to my local Cleveland fans as well as continue to deliver top tier restaurant reviews, hot takes on sports, and well, just general banter.I m still piecing together the bits of my old website, so bare with me as I get things moving.  It feels good to be back!Filed Under: Uncategorized Green Pastures Poultry – Pasture Raised PoultryNovember 10, 2010 by Admin It didn’t take long. Within 5 minutes of arriving on Marvin Hershberger’s Middlefield farm I had lost my shoe in calf-deep mud (I hope it was mud) forcing me to step into the same mud with my pristine white sock in an attempt to fish out my Adidas Shell-toe. After an eventful search, I found my very dirty shoe while covering my arm and camera with mud.A few minutes later I met Marvin, an Amish farmer with hands rougher than concrete, looked me up and down with mud up to my knees, globs of mud stuck to my shoes and a filthy arm, he said simply, “Muddy out here.” I have to imagine that’s Amish for “city boy”.I came out to the farm with Ariella Rebak owner of Green Pastures Poultry, a company selling local pasture raised poultry to the general public. A mom of 3 and a former lawyer, Ariella got started on her mission a few years back after reading Michael Pollan’s  “An Omnivore’s Dilemma” when she started up a CSA with fruits and vegetables from local farmers.It wasn’t long before CSA members were asking for chicken as well and Ariella saw a business opportunity. She worked with the same local farmers who provided vegetables for her CSA to add naturally raised poultry to their farms. A few years later, it turns out to be a boon for both parties:Ariella and her customers get fresh, local poultry that was pasture raised. The animals are treated well throughout their lives and while they do eat some grain, their diets can include anything they find to eat in the fields: bugs, weeds, clover, worms, all kinds of deliciousness. When eating these things, it takes the birds a little bit longer to grow, but this causes the birds to be more nutritious and, many argue, better tasting.Another important benefit for Green Pasture’s customers is that they have a clear line to where their poultry comes. When they pick-up their birds from Ariella at a farmers market, they can rest assured knowing that she picked up the bird they were buying from the farmer, witnessed it’s slaughter and is now selling it to them. That’s one person between them and the farmer. How many people are between you and the chicken you purchase from the grocery store?The farmers raising the poultry win too in this scenario. By adding pasture raised poultry to their farms they have another profitable resource they can sell for income. In many cases, it provides enough extra income to prevent them from having to earn money off the farm, and considering these are almost exclusively family farms, that means they can spend more time with their families.Having pastured birds on the farm has ecological benefits as well. As the birds roam the fields they are continually fertilizing the field and their constant scratching provides for a kind of aeration that helps for future plant growth. On the day I was on Marvin’s farm, he had his turkeys in the garden where he grows vegetables for local CSAs. They were picking his dying tomato plants clean of green tomatoes and had finished off any straggling peppers that hadn’t ripened enough for Marvin to use.And I must say, the turkeys looked pretty damn happy too. I mean, one did seem a bit upset about all this quantative easing business, but other than that, it seemed like a pretty sweet turkey life. Granted their all gonna be toast in about 3 weeks, in the meantime they can go pretty much wherever they’d like, eat a lot of great bugs and generally live it up until that time comes. So I’m thinking they like this arrangement as well.I think one of the best parts about Ariella’s whole mission is that she’s selling these amazing birds to the public. If you’d like to get in on that sweet happy turkey action, especially for Thanksgiving, now is the time to order from Ariella. You can place an order for a turkey on her website or you can give her a call at 216-255-1343. She’s a super nice lady doing some really great things for local food in Northeastern Ohio and that is someone I’m happy to support.Filed Under: Local Food Noce Gourmet Pizzeria – Chardon, OHNovember 1, 2010 by Admin I know what you’re saying. Gourmet pizza, in Chardon? Are you smoking doobies Mark? Alas, I am not.A few weeks ago the old lady and I were out with our son in beautiful Geauga county when we passed through Chardon Square and saw people waiting on the sidewalk for Noce. My first thought was that they must be giving something away with a John Deere logo on it, we were in Chardon after all.We were welcomed inside with the rich smell of garlic, down a short hallway to the maitre de’s stand. Once we saw the size of the place, it was no longer a surprise there were people waiting outside. There were maybe 5 or 6 small tables tightly packed into the dining area, everyone of them filled.Since we had brought a two year old who wasn’t interesting in waiting for pizza, regardless of how awesome it may be, we made the decision to get it to go. Trying decide on just one of the pizzas on the menu was tough, every one of them sounded delicious, but I settled on the sausage-mushroom-gorgonzola-garlic pizza.Oh shit that was good pizza. All of the topping were of very high quality, especially the sausage which met my ridiculously high “fat man” standards. The combination of all the flavors was perfect with the salty richness of the sausage being cut by the tangy cheese and sweet pieces of roasted garlic. Crispy crust on the thin-side made for an excellent base. One of the best pizzas I’ve had in a very long time.Check out Noce Pizza in Chardon, they are right on the square.Noce Gourmet Pizzeria125 Main St.Chardon, OH 44024440-279-0303 Filed Under: Cleveland Restaurants, Restaurant Reviews Win a Coffee CatcherOctober 5, 2010 by Admin Yesterday if you saw my post about “The Coffee Catcher” and were lusting after one, well go buy one you cheap bastard! Or you can win one. I’ve got two to give away and I’ll give one to a commenter on this post and another to anyone that tweets this:Yeah, he’s fat but he’s got such nice hips. http://goo.gl/7lNl @eatingcleveland #imonlydoingthistowinsomethingAwesome, I know. You can enter once via each method. Contest ends on Friday at 5:00p.m.CONTEST CLOSED!Filed Under: Contest The Coffee Catcher – Product ReviewOctober 4, 2010 by Admin I love me a cup of french press coffee, so smooth and delicious, beats the hell out of that swill you get for $4 a pop. However, there is one little thing that I hate about using a french press: cleaning the bastard. So obnoxious. All the grounds are smashed into the bottom of the carafe and the only way to get them out is to scoop it out bit by bit with a long spoon. Dreadful.I’ve even pondered with issue with my co-workers, suggesting that there must be a better way. My idea was the “Coffee Press Condom”, which may possibly need a different name, but it would fit into the carafe, the grounds would go into it and when you were done you’d pull out the condom and toss it in the trash. Ok, it’s not the greatest idea in the world, but it would work.However, thanks to the guys over at Kaffeolgie my “Coffee Press Condom” will never see the light of day. That’s because they came out with the “Coffee Catcher” which is essentially a mesh disk that you put in the bottom of your coffee press before adding the grounds. It then sits on the bottom during brewing and when it’s time to clean up you pull it up and all the grounds come up with it. Stainless steel sweetness.They were nice enough to send over a couple so that I could see how they work. In order to get the disk in and out, there is a little detachable handle that slides into some tabs to secure it. I thought that this would turn out to be the downfall of this device, how are you ever going to find those holes when it’s covered with coffee grounds? Well, if you line them up with the spout, it’s actually pretty easy to find and lock into place.I gave it a shot this evening and it worked pretty darn well. I had a bit of trouble maneuvering the handle off the tabs once it was in the press and when I pulled the grounds out some got stuck on the rim of the press. I think like anything else though, once you do it a couple of times it will become second nature and you’ll wonder how you ever got along without it.It’s pretty neat little product that fills a need, so I’m down with it. If you’d like to get one for yourself you can do so from their website or they are also available on Amazon. They have also given me a few to give away to readers to keep your eyes out for the contest later this week.

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