by Mark Christian | Dec 26, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Dan Pearson grew up in the Midwest, far from any cacaó trees. His backyard had a few Dutch elms & some lawn grass. Now an investment banker living in San Diego where cement painted green takes the place of sod, he puts together deals & falls in love with the...
by Mark Christian | Dec 26, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
That’s just a taste of the official science. The informal reality is ever more convoluted. Other than Criollo, cacáo is generally promiscuous, with so much cross-pollination, hybridization, mutation, & recombination that it’s rare & increasingly difficult to...
by Mark Christian | Dec 24, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Prospects are so frightening & staggering that Big Candy has no clue what they’re really chasing other than to desperately keep the current system of huge yields & cheap candy going – their definition of ‘sustainability’. They might only have to venture as far...
by Mark Christian | Dec 23, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
The chase is on. Mars, the candy giant, has been frantically mapping the cacáo genome in conjunction with whole teams of scientists from USDA field stations in Miami, FL & Beltsville, MD. Likewise their French counter – CIRAD — is equally fast at work, along...
by Mark Christian | Dec 23, 2012 | Book Reviews, Middle Shelf |
Everyone knows folks insanely devoted to chocolate (ahem) but who knew Jews are meshuga (crazy) for it? Leave it to a yente Rabbi to get all farklempt over it. Rabbi Debbie Prinz. The working title of her book – Jews on the Chocolate Trail – might God-smack of some...