Tuesday, March 18, 2003


the power of ziti

on a happy note, publishing my ziti recipe worked. hbo and james gandolfini appear to have settled. . .forget politics, now this is power!

it was a deeply amusing moment today to read nestle's position on world-price depression known as the coffee crisis: it says it doesn't support the current low prices but rather believes in sustainable development.

i nearly fell out of my chair in merriment at that one. nestle, the biggest of the "big four" multi-national coffee roasters, suddenly cares more about sustainable development and the fate of the suffering coffee farmer than its own stock price? who do they think they're fooling with this feel-good line? their stockholders are smarter than that, i'm sure.

but let's be generous and take them at their word. because if nestle did get on board, we would see progress.

therefore, i hope to see them soon lobby the u.s. congress for the country to rejoin the i.c.o., support the scaa's new coffee purity initiative, support the oxfam plan to destroy low-quality coffee, join transfair, and burn any low-quality coffee they themselves may be holding in warehouses.

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