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...blue-blooded conservative who has questioned the validity of the Tokyo War Crimes trials, Abe has visited Yasukuni repeatedly in the past, most recently this April, according to Japanese news reports. But unlike Koizumi, he has steadfastly refused to say whether he will go if he is elected Prime Minister. "[Abe] has made it clear that he doesn't want to make Yasukuni a campaign issue," says a Tokyo-based academic. "Koizumi is responsible for politicizing Yasukuni, and Abe is determined not to follow...
...gave me a preprandial tour of the center, which includes not only the eponymous barns (they now house the restaurant, the education center, an espresso caf? and a vegetable market) but also a working farm, which grows much of the food for the restaurant and its sister Blue Hill outpost in Manhattan. The center cost David Rockefeller - the last of John Sr.?s six grandchildren, he is now 91 - about $30 million...
...greenhouse to salad greens not only because they will flourish there without the use of chemicals but also because they draw a good price in a health-conscious place like Westchester County. (Despite the close links, Barber insists that the Stone Barns farm sells its produce to his Blue Hill restaurants at fair-market value. The farm also sells to retail customers at a small but busy on-site market...
...wiry guy, a talker, a fuzzy-haired and friendly type. He pretty much always wears chef's whites, but he is most passionate about farms; he grew up in New York City but worked summers at his family's farm in Massachusetts. (Full circle: that farm is named Blue Hill...
...dreamer, and his dreams have been fueled by a Rockefeller-size budget, but Barber is no purist. Stone Barns is an organic farm, but Blue Hill doesn't serve only organic food. The fruit, for instance, is almost all grown with chemical inputs. Organic fruit is available from California - which doesn't suffer from the Hudson Valley's humidity - but Barber prefers to buy locally. That's partly because the fruit tastes better without being trucked across the continent and partly because Barber wants to encourage non-industrial, regional agriculture. That means he lives with some pesticide residue...