by Mark Christian | Dec 27, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
In 2008, Pearson spirited some coarsely fermented beans out of Peru & brought them back to California. Everyday before this gym rat works out, he’d pop a couple in his mouth as a sort of natural PED (Performance Enhancing Drug). More than a food, less than a drug,...
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 | Oct 20, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Luncheon (Noon – 2:00pm) World Bank Headquarters, Room I-8300, I Building 1750 19 & I Street NW, Washington DC Chair: Cyprian FISIY, Director, Social Development (SDV) and Laureant MSELLATI, Sector Manager, Latin America...
