Food Crisis Anyone?

The world food crisis, at least as reported by the press, has passed.  Here’s an article about the Thais trying to find ways to prop up the falling price of…

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An English Farmhouse Garden

I’ve wanted for some time to put on record what was typically grown in an English farmhouse garden in the 1950s and 1960s.  The one I am describing is the…

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A Hawaii Story for the Inauguration. Part IV of IV

On December 30th, Barack Obama, Michelle, and various friends and family went to dinner at Alan Wong’s, their third visit.  And I think about that small restaurant. In charge of…

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