Tastes of the Tropics - Michael Rolhman

04/18/18 • 22 min

How’s Your Neighborhood Grocery Store?

Does your cashier greet you by name? Do you find local artisans represented? Or do you skip your grocery store visit altogether, use a delivery service and shop at the farmers market?

Michael Ruhlman, author of Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America, talks with us about the modern grocery store – why we love it, what it does well and what it needs to do better, and how we the consumer can make a difference in the future of this uniquely American institution.

How’s Your Neighborhood Grocery Store?

Does your cashier greet you by name? Do you find local artisans represented? Or do you skip your grocery store visit altogether, use a delivery service and shop at the farmers market?

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Tastes of the Tropics - Daniel Stone

What’s on Your Plate?

Thank a Plant Explorer Kale, hops, mangos, avocados, peaches and plums – and thousands upon thousands of other food and useful plants – made their way to this country over a century ago because of David Fairchild. He even brought the famed cherry blossom trees...

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....to Washington, D.C. from Japan, despite an initial disastrous effort. It’s all in Daniel Stone’s new book, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats. We talk with Stone and Fairchild’s granddaughter, Helene Pancoast, who shares recollections of growing up with a legend who

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Tastes of the Tropics - Mango Men Homestead

Know Your Mango

Known as the King of Fruits the world over, the mango (Mangifera indica) has been cultivated for thousands of years. Among the hundreds of varieties are fruits that are green, yellow, red, orange and deep purple; flesh that is pale yellow, deep orange, fibrous or silky smooth; and flavors that are sweet, tart, spicy or sour, sometimes tasting of coconut, lemon, orange or, well, mango.

Tropical fruit expert Dr. Richard Campbell invites us into his kitchen to taste three mangos deeply rooted in history: Cambodiana, Chao Savoy and Cogshall and share tantalizing tales along the way. These three varieties are among the renowned mangos that Campbell and his three sons – Mango Men of Homestead

https://www.facebook.com/mangomenhomestead/ – grow, sell and ship throughout the summer.