I went to a wedding two days ago with a thought from a book fresh in my mind. “We could eat a cookie or a doughnut or a cupcake every day,” the book said. “Cake is special. You really feel you have to deserve it.” That’s why cake is prominent at celebrations, birthdays, welcome home [...]
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Let Me Eat Cake (Leslie Miller)
Posted in food, tagged cake baking food on April 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Banana (Dan Koeppel)
Posted in economics, food, tagged bananas, Central America, economics, food, fruit on July 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bananas start my day. I eat one almost every morning and seldom leave a grocery store without a fresh bunch. But the familiar yellow Cavendish banana is a threatened fruit, succumbing to Panama Disease in several parts of the world and facing extinction like the Gros Michel banana so popular 50 years ago. I heard [...]
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