Word: starch
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...inside greenhouses at the University of Basel, Switzerland, indicates that too much CO2 can harm plants. One greenhouse had an atmosphere like today's; the second had as much CO2 as is predicted for the middle of the next century. The effects: plants in the second rain forest produced starch deposits that could interfere with photosynthesis, and the soils they lived in showed a rapid loss of nutrients. The scientists are now working with other experimental ecologies, and the preliminary results are the same...
Ever since that summer at nerd camp, my taste buds and stomach have been on a quest to re-experience a near-perfectly balanced meal of vegetable, meat and starch in one dish. Specifically, my mission has been to discover and then savor the Platonic form of shepherd's pieness...
There, in St. George, S.C., my lunch consisted of the perfect combination of starch, meat, and vegetables--perfectly spiced with hot salsa. The meat was tender, the vegetables fresh, and the dough moist. And It was all in the shadow of the golden arches...
...list the ingredients here for fear of nauseating Crimson readers, but the important part reads like this: "...partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening (contains one or more of: canola oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil), modified food starch..." Yes, Jon, absolutely no treife animal shortening...
...spinning is robust again, in three fine collections. Joan Chase's Bonneville Blue (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 226 pages; $16.95) contains 11 poignant tales. In one of the finest, Elderberries and Souls, the adolescent narrator recalls a passionate crush on her stepuncle: "I was smelling his cotton shirt, smoke and starch, and his soul, as if that, too, were a thing to be smelled." But a sudden glimpse of his unstable temper makes her realize how inexperienced she is in the ways of the world and propels her into the arms of a simpler, safer and younger admirer. The sense...