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- Northern New Jersey is home to the world’s largest concentration of flavoring factories. Filmmaker Jon Cohrs set out in a canoe to find them. [1 of 3]
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food 18 May 2012
by Nicola Twilley, author of Edible Geography. She survived a canoe trip with Jon and will discuss artificial flavors at MCA Denver on July 5. WEBSITE TWITTER FLICKR
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- The Meadowlands is hands-down the best book about this bizarre marshy landscape of garbage dumps, factories, and the ruins of Penn Station. [2 of 3]
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- Meanwhile, did you know that most cinnamon sold in the United States is fake, but we prefer it to the real stuff? [3 of 3]
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- Images (in order): filming with Jon Cohrs; cover of The Meadowlands, by Robert Sullivan; fake, fake, and real cinnamon, photo via the Brooklyn Brainery.
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