Word: citrus
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...Graham wants to stretch out the taxes citrus growers must pay for the $83 million they got in federal aid when they lost trees to citrus canker. Citrus canker has been sweeping through Florida and the only way farmers can stop it is to cut down the trees. Graham wants his farmers to have a longer time to pay taxes on the compensation they get from the federal government for their loss...
With Nobu, New Yorkers' palates and vocabularies expanded. A decade ago, when Tadashi Ono became the executive chef at the renowned La Caravelle, the owners omitted any mention in the menu of ingredients like yuzu, a tart citrus fruit, and shiso, a mint-like herb, because the exotic terms intimidated diners. Today, at Ono's own restaurant, Sono, waiters proudly tout the yuzu cosmopolitan and shiso margarita...
...greeted Reichl at an airport not with flowers but with fraises des bois flown in from France. "He kissed me and said, 'Close your eyes and open your mouth,'" Reichl writes. "I sniffed the air; it smelled like a cross between violets and berries, with just a touch of citrus. My mouth closed around something very small...the size of a little grape but with a scratchy surface. 'Do you like it?' he asked anxiously. I tasted spring...
Gains in Latin American fruit, flowers and other agricultural exports are supposed to help offset losses in other areas, and North America's normally pro-trade farmers are worried. Says Shawn Stevenson, a citrus and pistachio farmer in California's San Joaquin Valley: "It's hard to compete against folks who don't have the regulatory burden we do, or a minimum wage, or high fuel prices." Brazilian producers of frozen, concentrated orange juice are thirstily eyeing the U.S. market, in which they once enjoyed a 45% share. That was before the U.S. industry got Washington to impose whopping...
...only eat so many apples, oranges and bananas," he says. "Pears, melons, grapes would be nice and maybe some citrus fruits...