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...many meals rushed, in front of the TV," says James Wheeler, 28. "It's sometimes nice to share a meal with people." Even if they are people he has never met before. Wheeler can often be found on Sundays swapping pots of jam with neighbors at the wooden farm table at his local branch of Belgian bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien. Restaurants ranging from the fast-casual Bonefish Grill chain to high-end foodie destinations like the Herbfarm in Woodinville, Wash., are offering communal tables. A couple who met at the shared table at Cafe Pasqual's in Santa...
Most days, main street in the tiny farm community of Yuma, Colo., is slow, save for a few folks meandering from Hardware Hank's to the coffee shop and maybe some pickup trucks poking along, the better to avoid a stray dog or loose child...
...solution. As U.S. vehicles burn through 9 million bbl. of gasoline a day, cornfield Cassandras fear that the home-brewed replacement may be only a pricey stepping-stone to a new generation of more efficient, lower-cost power sources like other biofuels, solar cells, wind and ethanol made from farm waste or other sources. Brazil, for instance, brews sugarcane-based ethanol, which is more efficient than corn-based...
...Bushner allows that he can live with that: "Every time we put a gallon of ethanol in our car, that's a gallon of gasoline we're not putting in it that we got from the Middle East." Seems that the view on alternative fuels from down on the farm goes much farther than just over the next ridge...
...While the hotels, eco-lodge, organic date farm, and olive and lake salt factories created jobs for the men of Siwa, however, "We had to get the women to work or the reason for development was incomplete," explains Laila Neamatallah...