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...window, the lush cloud forest of Mexico's Veracruz state stretches to a blue-green horizon, and hummingbirds dip into the wild hibiscus. The American, 40, closes her eyes, bending over a row of 12 white cups on a round metal table. Each contains coffee from the new harvest, toasted at 400ºF in a small roaster on the counter. Bolger shakes each cup and sniffs deeply. "I'm looking for defects," she says. "Underripe beans, overripe beans, sour flavors, mold. If even one bean out of 60 is flawed, you can tell...
...Afghan Harvest In the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, battles are raging on multiple fronts. Insurgents killed two Afghans at a government military post near the former Taliban stronghold of Khost in the south-east late last week, hours after local militia showered 20 rockets on the city's airport, triggering fire from U.S. forces based nearby. Away from the front lines, efforts to halt Afghanistan's opium trade are failing. After taking office in 2001, Afghan President Hamid Karzai outlawed...
...satisfactory labor conditions and environmental standards are granted the designation, and receive a fair price (80 cents per pound instead of 50 cents) for the cocoa they produce. Fair trade chocolate is less available than fair trade coffee, but can still be purchased at Bread and Circus and the Harvest Co-op. As awareness and demand grows, the market will develop...
...articles caused such a stir that a more stringent testing process, using chemical profiling, is to be introduced following this year's first harvest. Connoisseurs can also employ a more ad hoc method of detection-excess pyrazine has a trademark note of asparagus or roasted peppers...
Latham is also the founder of the annual Wild About Game Cook-Off in Welches, Ore. At its 2000 debut, about 50 people showed up. In 2003 more than 600 checked out the creations of such top chefs as Joseba Jimenez of Seattle's Harvest Vine restaurant, who made a pheasant braised in Cabernet Franc and sherry vinegar with foie gras. It's not just chefs in the outdoorsy West who are serving unconventional meats. In Houston, Ziggy's Healthy Grill faced a storm of animal-rights protests after adding kangaroo burgers to its menu. And in New York City...