The Washington Post, August 11th, 2004
This week's look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles: Kids who live in tropical and subtropical lands -- from Havana to Maui to Rangoon -- love to chew on fibrous sugar cane for a taste of the flavorful syrup. A principal source of sucrose, sugar cane is a perennial grass that is believed to have originated in either Southeast Asia or the South Pacific. In the production of crystallized sugar, mature canes anywhere from four to 10 feet in length are field-cut and trucked to processing plants, where steam turbines squeeze the crop for its juice. In short, the extracted ...
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