It’s a . . ? It’s a Brown Tomato
It’s a brown tomato. It came in a plastic box with half a dozen confreres at my local Wal-Mart in Mexico City. Inside it’s still brownish. Tastes fine. Disconcerting, a…
Read moreWhat is culinary heritage?
I’m supposed to know something about culinary heritage. Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage is the subtitle of the book I published in the 1990s on the extraordinary foods of the Islands. …
Read moreThe success of genetically-modified papaya
In 1937, the then President of the University of Hawaii, David Crawford, wrote Hawaii’s Crop Parade, 288 pages in which he relentlessly listed the crops that had been tried in…
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