it would make a difference.” She showed up without an appointment at the Librarian off duty vintage shirt Apart from…,I will love this Indian Institute of Spices Research in Kerala, where heirloom seeds of all sorts of Indian plants are preserved, and learned that most turmeric farmers didn’t even know what variety they grew. She met Prabhu Kasaraneni, who practices a method called “zero-budget natural farming”—no chemical fertilizer, no pesticide, no inputs at all from off the farm. She bought 10 kilos of a variety called Pragati and returned to the U.S. with it and hired a graphic designer. Javeri Kadri never planned to import spices full-time. “I was working two days as a line cook at Cosecha in the Bay Area,” she says, “just shoveling turmeric from my little stash in my basement into jars.”
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