And the world’s largest exporter of beef is?

  India. A recent report by the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of USDA states that for the second year in a row in 2013 India will be the world’s largest…

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Cooking Across Cultures, Classes, and Sexes in the 1930s: The Extraordinary Career of Mary Sia

When I taught at the University of Hawai‘i in the 1980s, I often wandered into the university bookstore during the lunch hour. Always on the shelf of local cookbooks was…

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Those brown spots, swollen joints and tender gums

He was just a little boy.  He lived in the country.  So why were brown spots spreading on his skin, why were his joints swollen and aching, why were his…

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