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Melissa Gilbert talked about her new home in Brighton on the Food Network show, "The Kitchen."
"Little House on the Prairie" star and Livingston County resident Melissa Gilbert - who recently announced that she would run for the 8th Congressional District seat - appeared on an episode of the Food Network show "The Kitchen" this past weekend, and while making what she calls "General Gilbert's California Fried Chicken," she dished about her (and husband Timothy Busfield's) new home.
"I just moved to Brighton, Michigan," said Gilbert, who'd previously lived with Busfield near downtown Howell. " ... We've got a 3 story log house on 25 acres in the woods. ... I went back to the big woods."
Gilbert also talked about the advantages, food-wise, of living in such an area.
"Where I live, the neighbors who raise chickens - I get fresh chicken that has just been (slaughtered)," she said. "I live in farm country. I get eggs, I get milk, I get butter. I have a friend who raises beef cattle, and once a year, they call and say, 'What do you want?'"
Jenn McKee is an entertainment reporter for The Ann Arbor News. Reach her at jennmckee@mlive.com or 734-623-2546, and follow her on Twitter @jennmckee.