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...increasing, standard white bread has seen its share of total consumption drop from more than 80% in 1972 to around 55% today. Large commercial producers, like Continental Baking Co. (makers of Wonder bread), Campbell Taggart and Flowers Industries, turn out dozens of "variety" blends, rife with cracked wheat, whole grain and oat bran. Many supermarkets even sell fresh-out-of-the-oven loaves from their own in-house bakeries. (Shoppers may not realize that many of these hot breads are prepared from frozen or pre-packaged mixes.) But it is the small, local bakeshops that have enjoyed the most surprising...
...terms of color and the space that color creates? Monet's control is astounding. With the sun behind it, the facade is a looming cliff of blue shadows; as the light moves onto its face, it becomes a stupendously intricate cellular structure, a vertical reef of stone, its grain and warmth evoked by the texture of the paint, flushed by radiance, in which every last touch of pigment seems operative...
...There are scoffers, principally in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who say we can release millions of acres of cropland from the soil banks, pour on the fertilizer and meet any food demand. But Brown, with his soft voice and his inevitable bow tie, holds firm. Grain stocks are low; air pollution has reduced U.S. crop production 5% or 10%. Major weather aberrations around the globe could easily produce food scarcities and political unrest...
...high plains of Texas, touches eight states and embraces 174,000 sq. mi. In some places the water level has fallen 200 ft., leaving the balance between use and recharge from rainfall in precarious condition. Given a little hot dry weather and good farm prices that encourage increased grain planting, the irrigation pumps will begin to whir, in all likelihood sucking up more water than will be replaced...
...watch that topsoil roll by, going down to the Gulf of Mexico. The 34 million acres of fragile cropland taken out of production over the past few years have helped stem this wash, but farmers are still losing to erosion four tons of topsoil for every ton of grain produced...