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What could be wrong with this picture? The farm-grown harvest is cheap, predictable and year-round. "A fillet of farmed salmon in your supermarket is fresher than a wild fish netted at sea that can take five to six days to get to harbor," says Odd Grydeland, 54, former president of the British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association and an executive at Heritage Salmon, based in New Brunswick, B.C. Moreover, each farm-grown salmon means, in theory, one less fish taken from wild stocks that have been declining for decades. (Farm-raised fish now make up most of the fresh...
...calculated by percentages of the total product, everything is weighed on calibrated scales and recipes are adjusted seasonally for humidity. The recipes are simple—the secret is in the premium ingredients. The butter is Plugra, European-style with a high butterfat content and less moisture than standard supermarket fare, and flours come from Vermont and North Carolina. There are corn kernels in the Corn Bread, sprouted wheat berries in the Huron Loaf and plump golden raisins in the Raisin-Pecan Bread. And, as the bakers proudly tell me, everything is made by hand...
...there are some 200 artworks - photos of early 20th century shop fronts by Walker Evans, Eug?ne Atget and Berenice Abbott, surrealist mannequin displays and Fluxus conceptual art reconstructions. The installations are the most eye-catching. For the first time since it was shown in New York in 1964, American Supermarket, a collaboration by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others, has been remade, complete with meat, cheese and fruit counters, neon signs and chirpy muzak. For visitors, the Saturday morning trip to the supermarket will never feel the same. - By Kate Noble A BreathOf Stale Air Fashion has so much...
...dust cover on this day?Aa Gym putters slowly through his little empire, a patch of about one square kilometer in Bandung that houses his myriad enterprises: the radio station; the website offices; the publisher that puts out his 32 books and dozens of cassettes and VCDs; the cooperative supermarket; the mosque, with its attendant school for 500; a rest house for the numerous visitors and for management-training seminars; two orphanages, one of which is located in a house he was originally going to move into himself but decided was "too fancy," according to aide Budi Hartono. Budi adds...
...Super Mario The score was Mario Monti 1, Nintendo €149 million, as the European Commission levied its fifth-largest fine ever against the Japanese video-games company for keeping prices artificially high in some E.U. states during the 1990s. Gross Domestic Product When hundreds of ASDA's British supermarket customers were caught illegally using vegetable oil as a cheap, tax-free fuel, the company got an idea. From January, ASDA will reprocess used frying fat to power its delivery fleet. That may be environmentally sound. But will trucks emblazoned with the charming slogan "This vehicle is powered by chicken...