Travel

Diving Into the Ingredients That Make Us: Sugar Cane 

Words by Matt Dursum Growing up, my parents were sugar addicts. From the Sara Lee Corporation’s refined goodies to midwestern-styled Polish pączkis, nothing was too sweet. Like most kids, I hated most of what my parents liked, and sugar quickly became my enemy.  The detest I felt slowly shifted towards processed foods. And once I tasted fresh pressed sugar cane juice, it turned my world around. Sugar, when eaten or drunk in moderation, could be…

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North America

American Highways, Road Trip Through America’s Heartland: New Mexico to Michigan

All Photos by Samantha Demangate Pungent layers of mesquite smoke lingering in the crisp morning air greeted us as we sleepily stepped outside with our hot coffees. It was dawn in the high desert and the sunrise was breathtakingly colorful. We sipped our coffee and inhaled the aromatic air before packing up and departing from our lovely converted airstream AirBnB. After hitting the road we pulled into a small restaurant to grab breakfast, and in…

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