Prairie Fare: Can you name the three ways to thaw food safely?

I should have worn tall boots, I thought to myself. Actually, I do not have tall enough boots. We had a two-foot snowfall with a brisk wind. I was trudging through some snow banks on my way to my office during what was, by all predictions, the last blizzard of the season. When you live in the Midwest, anything can happen.

I was thinking about warmer days without snow. After a winter with a lot of s…