As the food market becomes increasingly globalized, our neighborhood supermarkets are shelved with well-traveled products from every nook and cranny of the planet. Fresh Wellfleet oysters from Massachusetts are shipped to the finest restaurants in Las Vegas; cod from Norway is processed into filets in China and then shipped to Scandinavia; coffee beans travel across continents, from crops to cups, to meet the...
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