Word: flavorfully
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...Vinton: I had sort of a split existence at home. My mother made only processed foods, but my grandmother made everything from scratch. If she made chicken soup, she would make her own noodles. I think that hard-wired my taste buds to look for authentic flavor...
...Vinton: I had an ah-ha moment on a summer motorcycle trip across country. I was looking for mom and pop diners and authentic flavor. I thought that bounty would just be before us. There would be fruits and vegetables everywhere. I expected family farms. I found just the opposite was true. The family farms were absolutely melting into the ground. They were disappearing, and the rural communities that depended on agriculture were boarded up and abandoned, because they had been bought out by agri-business...
...Vinton: Any of those things eaten out of season is going to lack the flavor punch that you have when it comes from around your area. Those fruits and vegetables, when shipped from a long distance, have to be picked unripe, so that they are hard enough to survive the journey. They've taken a long time to get to your doorstep, and lost flavor and nutrition every step of the way...During the summer months, when it's so easy to support your local grower, you're not only enjoying a fresh meal the minute that you pick...
...families spent just spent $10 a week on local produce during the six-month growing season in Maine, [farmers] would retain $100 million in revenue every year. So it's very powerful just to make a small effort. Once you do it a little bit at a time, the flavor really hooks...
With Crimson editors scattered across the globe this summer, we will be not be publishing our regular slate of editorials. Instead, we have invited editors to submit summer postcards from afar. We hope they will give you a flavor of the wide range of the jobs, internships, activities, and experiences that characterize Crimson editors’ summers, while at the same time providing a glimpse of the issues and opinions that are moving and animating our staff in every corner of the world...