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...honey. The Star grows its own herbs and some of its own vegetables on a four-acre patch. Fish is brought daily from nearby Hartlepool on the North Sea. And not to forget the drink, Pern tempts customers with homemade rhubarb schnapps and blackberry vodka. The son of a farmer, Pern grew up on a dairy and arable farm outside nearby Whitby. After catering college, he worked in restaurants in Yorkshire before buying the Star in 1996. Six years later Michelin awarded him the star for his superb and innovative cooking. Only two other British pubs have that coveted honor...
...Jimmy was also a peanut farmer. Do you like nuts...
...cafeterias in her state halved the prices of fresh fruits and vegetables, purchases of baby carrots doubled; apples, bananas and oranges saw a fourfold surge. In Santa Monica, Calif., similar market forces are at play in 16 schools that offer children a choice of an all-you-can-eat farmer's-market salad bar. In the hot-meal line, it's one trip only. At the lunch bell, students race for greens and blanched broccoli. Says Tracie Thomas, the district's interim food-services director: "Instead of going to McDonald's, our students want to go to the farmer...
...afternoon is more of the same. A long bumpy drive up the Fuladi Valley to another damaged school. An impromptu visit to a potato farmer, who proudly tells the Colonel his harvest was the best in years. Three more bridges, all of them recently collapsed and needing urgent replacement. A sit-down meeting with an earnest young Hazara who wants to know if the Chiclets can help him start up a computer training center in Bamiyan. (Col. Walker tells him to submit a written request...
Cong Qihua, a former farmer who migrated from impoverished Anhui province to seek a better life selling vegetables from a stall in the outskirts of Shanghai, is, in his own way, upwardly mobile. Back in Anhui, he made about $120 a year. Today he and his wife make that much in a month. Still, the pace of his days is not so different. He has no reason to dash about, like many of his fellow Shanghainese, with a cell phone pressed to his ear. "Why would I need one of those things?" asks Cong...