The seed companies will have their exhibit areas along the soon-to-be built 11th Street, with test plots directly behind the exhibits, said Jeff Smith, the show's Decatur-based regional sales manager. The test plot filled with corn will be directly behind the company's tent, where Rhoads is hoping to draw lots of visitors by playing what is called "Burrus Bingo. Brix skillfully navigated between orange utility flags marking the outlines of the plots as employees with Burrus and other...

The self-described "international activist" had found a prime spot, in the shadow of the monument to Cuban independence hero Jose Marti, overlooking the plaza. In it he spelt out his views on the dangers of US initiatives to convert corn to ethanol, warning that the policy would turn a food crop for the poor into a fuel for the rich. To the left, you could glimpse the first row of a line of maybe half a million people, ready to start walking when the signal was given. Fidel's illness,...

Only four domestic gluten manufacturers, including two in Kansas, have survived the flood of foreign wheat gluten bought here in the last decade at prices cheaper than U. There is no evidence that any of the two contaminated batches of wheat gluten and rice protein from China ended up as an ingredient in human food, "but it's prudent to look," said Dr. Delivered in a wide-ranging speech in which he promised Venezuela was headed for a classless society, Chavez's threat Thursday did not seem...

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With the 35- plus restaurateurs, chefs, and food vendors serving their food, ticket holders and volunteers meandered from table to table. For the presentation, three large mirrors doubled as serving platters mounded with the Thai Minced Chicken fritters accented with beautiful spring pansy flowers. Cooper of Vidalia in Washington had a perfect taste of mini rosemary biscuits layered with barbecued pork served with Vidalia onion slaw, which is used as an amuse-bouche at the restaurant. Chef...

The fritters had been fried too long, judging by their very dark color, and so the batter taste tended to drown the seafood and corn. Stretching exactly one block between Allen and Virginia, it s quaint and narrow, yet it manages to boast three atmospheric restaurants in what were originally mews cottages built for the servants who worked in the Delaware Avenue swells mansions. As appetizers, we tried Duck Wontons with spicy mango sauce ($8), admiring the very tasty filling with its strong...