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Everything about avocados
David Karp, who writes richly detailed stories about food in the LAT often, tours the avocado groves of Southern California for the New York Times today. He delves into the history of the ubiquitous Hass, invented by a Pasadena postal carrier in 1926, and packs in a lot of background, as usual.
Indeed, Hass. Fixed, and thanks.
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at June 26, 2003 02:28 PMThe L.A. Times, in its serene wisdom, actually dumped Karp, who had long been one of the best things in the food section, when a profile in the New Yorker revealed that he had used drugs when he was at prep school or something. The NYT, realizing that he knew more about produce than anybody in the known universe, snapped him up almost instantly. As well they should have.
Posted by: jackfruit at June 27, 2003 10:21 PMComment posting has been turned off
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HaSs, not HaAs
Posted by: Ant Blabby at June 26, 2003 12:36 PM