{"id":356,"date":"2006-06-08T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-06-08T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:05:07","slug":"oafe-award-bringing-the-homestead-tradition-to-your-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"OAFE Award &#8211; Bringing the Homestead Tradition to Your Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Nichols has a secret.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, not that secret.  Another one.  I wouldn&#8217;t dare tell that one.<br \/>\nMichelle is from <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Drake, the center of the meat processing world\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=drake,+sk&#038;ll=51.748076,-105.011787&#038;spn=0.401308,1.384277&#038;om=1\">Drake, Saskatchewan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drake may be known for many things, but I know it for two:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Home base for the Wiens clan.<\/li>\n<li>World headquarters for <a title=\"The best sausage factory on earth\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drakemeats.com\/\">Drake Meat Processors<\/a>, the best smoked farmer sausage factory on earth!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"211\" height=\"159\" align=\"left\" title=\"Look at them hang!\" alt=\"Look at them hang!\" id=\"image165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/sausage22.jpg\" \/>Michelle gave me 2 coils of farmer sausage for my birthday this year, and we had the first one this week.<\/p>\n<p>All OAFE aspirants be warned: this particular OAFE Award really raises the bar on future awards &#8230; the sausage is that good.<\/p>\n<p>I will be writing Drake Meats a letter suggesting that I become their exclusive Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec distributor.  I may never send it, but I&#8217;m going to write it.<\/p>\n<p>Off to Radiohead in Toronto!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Nichols has a secret. No, no, not that secret. Another one. I wouldn&#8217;t dare tell that one. Michelle is from Drake, Saskatchewan. Drake may be known for many things, but I know it for two: Home base for the Wiens clan. World headquarters for Drake Meat Processors, the best smoked farmer sausage factory on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}