Hints and tips:
...We don’t want to diss Idaho, but having to pay your new head of human resources $1.4mn to join you at the potato farm is . . . quite damning....
...I am fond of sardines on buttered crackers with chilli crunch. I love potato chips, too....
...“The rivalry between the United States and China may well be determined by computing power.”...
...Water shortages and irrigation restrictions on the US west coast hit carrot production, while potato prices rose 13 per cent due to the lack of deep soil moisture in key growing areas such as Idaho, according...
...of reasons as to why a united Ireland is now in plain sight....
...Much of the produce is supplied by local growers such as Max Onslow of Bateman Road in Chingford, who will be collaborating with Flynn and Pryce to grow speciality ingredients for the restaurant such as...
...Mr Evrard, the commercial director of Belgian Fruit Valley (BFV), which encompasses over 1,000 fruit growers, reels off a long list of unknowns he now confronts in trading with the UK, one of its key export...
...Each day, the rapids — mainly Class II and III, with names such as Jackass, House of Rocks and Devil’s Tooth — increased with intensity, particularly after we entered the granite walls of the Impassable...
...Andrew Bailey: Ursine tales, Part II As the FT reported this week, Andrew Bailey — the new boss of the Financial Conduct Authority — plans to abandon the aggressive approach of his predecessor, Martin Wheatley...
...The potato trouble adds to a growing list of problems that Sarah Casanova has faced since being appointed chief executive of McDonald’s Japan in August 2013....
...Blight remains the most serious hazard for potato growers. According to the researchers, it causes £3.5bn of worldwide losses annually and costs British farmers £60m to control in an average year....
...Raul Labrador occupies a special niche in the American political sphere: he is a Puerto Rican-born, Mormon-convert, Tea Party-backed Republican congressman from the potato state of Idaho....
...Indeed, Lehman Bros before the crash was widely viewed as having one of the best managed cultures on Wall Street under Dick Fuld, now resident in Sun Valley, Idaho....
...WARNING: what has happened is no guarantee of what will happen. WARNING II: if you need the first warning, perhaps see us after class?...
...►Aspen Lakes, Idaho, United States, $15m Where: In Blaine County in central Idaho, around four miles north of Friedman Memorial airport, which has a private jet terminal and daily direct flights to Seattle...
...The probe concerns Diamond’s accounting for crop payments to walnut growers and has disrupted the plans of P&G, the world’s biggest consumer goods company, to exit the food business....
...If you think that your Idaho potato is perfectly baked, then you should have eaten it at home in its perfect condition....
...Accommodation consists of tents on the beach and adobe huts made of local earth and recycled potato sacks, plus a compost heap for outdoor toilets....
...in Illinois, Washington, Georgia, Idaho and Kentucky....
...The daughter of an Idaho potato farmer, Ms Oppenheimer graduated from the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington in 1980....
...This example was made around 1740, during the reign of George II, and its basic form – side drawers flanking a central drawer and a recessed cupboard in the kneehole – is typically English....
...The stock includes books of “redneck poetry” and spent shells from the civil war, Third Reich-inspired rock CDs and bumper stickers reading “The United States is an Obamanation to the world”....
...When the French vineyards became infected in the 1800s it led to the collapse of the country’s wine industry. When potato crops in Ireland became plagued in the 1840s it created famine....
...William Tuohy was born in Chicago on October 1 1926, the descendant of an Irishman who had fled there during the potato famine....
...“Jack Simplot was to the potato what Henry Ford was to the automobile,” one Idaho newspaper eulogised....
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