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751: Saving Rare Foods with Dan Saladino and M. Karlos Baca

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

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Aren't They a Thing of the Past?

The wild fruits were then taken around the world over many, many centuries and then ingenious fruit breeders took them. In most pretty much all cases made them sweeter and sweeter. As the bitterness disappears, the fruit becomes fragile to pests and diseases. And so what do we do? We actually then have to be the defense system for the plant and we spray them with chemicals exactly.

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