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...Herbfarm in Woodinville, Wash., each day's menu is set only hours before the meal in order to take advantage of the day's harvest from the restaurant's 6,000-sq.-ft. garden. Chef Benjamin Ford maintains an organic garden in his backyard for his Beverly Hills, Calif., restaurant Chadwick, which is named for legendary gardener Alan Chadwick, the man who is credited with bringing biodynamic organic gardening...
...cultivating less than a tenth of an acre. Chinaveg gave them special seeds and pesticides acceptable to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which were demanded by customers like KFC. In turn, the farmers sold the pesticides for a quick profit and ruined the crop with highly toxic replacements. Come harvest, the farmers tried to sell for a higher price on the open market...
...Much of the credit belongs to Kyoji Doi, Suigei's toji, or sake brewmaster, a proud member of a dwindling breed. "In the olden days, the eldest sons of farmers made sake after the harvest," explains Doi, 63. He had followed his father into his vocation straight out of high school. "But my son," he says with a rueful, gap-toothed smile, "he's a salaryman...
...troupe and by a developing Korea. At each of the troupe’s performances, Han Ma-Eum will select one or two pieces from its standard repertoire, which includes such traditional and modern works as “Young mam” (originally a celebration of the harvest, Ahn says), “Yong ho” and “Utdari”—rhythmic music...
...deserves a whole book of his own. We meet Mark Young, a good-natured loser who got a life sentence--without parole--for his peripheral role in one marijuana deal. Schlosser has a gift for spotting colossal numbers that hide in plain sight: America's domestic marijuana harvest, he tells us, is worth upwards of $20 billion a year, making it the country's largest cash crop...