Cream of Caroline

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About — Caroline Hatchett Hi, I’m Caroline. I move through the world a little slack-jawed by the whole enterprise, the connectedness of it all. My favorite stories weave together ecology, labor, politics, and eating. In Madeira, after a chestnut-themed lunch, I could not help but wonder what the character of modern Appalachia might have been without chestnut blight, a disease that rendered the keystone species functionally extinct. So I cooked and visited with women in the tiny village of Curral das Freiras to find out. I have reported from the flooded rice fields of South Carolina, ringed by sabal palms and occupied by roseate spoonbills and alligators. The crop has a dark history in the st

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