Dreams of Food in Any Damn POW Camp in the Pacific

Dreams of Food in Any Damn POW Camp in the Pacific

36,000 Americans were imprisoned in Japanese POW camps in World War II, most of them for three or more years. Their chance of survival was not much better than 1 in…

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Who’s Producing Your Tea (and Other Tropical Crops)?

Who’s Producing Your Tea (and Other Tropical Crops)?

After ten years in Hawaii at a time when sugar and pineapple still largely supported the islands’ economy, I thought I had growing tropical crops for export to the countries…

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Who is going to farm?

I spend quite a bit of time reading the writings of people concerned with food, and yet more time talking with them. A constant refrain is that we need more…

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