Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents’ Thanksgiving dinner table.
Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the actual organisms they consumed didn’t look or taste much at all like our modern variants do.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/turkeytech/
Greetings from Trouville-sur-Mer, a beach town little changed since Monet
painted it
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The Normandy beach town of Trouville-sur-Mer is a two-hour train ride from
Paris, but feels a world away, with English Channel breezes and the sound
of sea...
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