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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'American Cheeses'
OH MY GOODNESS, the Grafton Village Cheese Company Four Star Cheddar from Vermont! Amazing cheese. Good for anything and anyone. The trick though is that seeing as how a pound of the stuff will set you back a full paper Jackson, you must travel to the small town of Grafton VT and visit the shop where they make the cheese to get your hands on a vacuum-sealed package of the Four Star "ends" for maybe only $5 a pound! Oh dear...I don't think I should have let everyone in on that secret. There better be some left for me some this summer.
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The more brown (naturally occurring, not bruising) means the more sugar in the banana. With a banana that is still green the starch to sugar ratio is 20 : 1, while a banana that is yellow and brown has a starch to sugar ratio of 1 : 20....so, the less green and more brown means a sweeter treat! I would guess that the 'bruised' parts of a banana are areas that have had their ripening process sped up (so also a sweeter taste (?), albeit with a mushier texture). The banana in the pic at the top is definitely perfect for me.
As for the organic stuff...bananas are one of the few fruits you can get away with not buying organically. Because of their thick outer skin, whatever chemical they might be sprayed with doesn't penetrate through to the fruit. Doesn't sound good about the child labor issues though (do you have a link to that article organicgal?), something to look into for sure. It is always a good thing to get fair trade whenever you can, I am just saying in terms of nutrition/chemicals, in this specific situation, organic is no better than conventional. You want to get disgusted, look into what is sprayed onto conventional strawberries, now there is a fruit to only buy organic!