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Sunda, CBD: Vegemite curry with roti Ellen Fraser, Melbourne editor On my first visit to Sunda I knocked back the offer of a Vegemite curry special and was promptly filled with regret. When I returned, it was with a mission. This dish is a rough, golden-tan twist of broken roti next to a wodge of highly concentrated, coppery-brown curry. Chef Khanh Nguyen says it’s made with the usual suspects you’d get in a curry, but along with the Vegemite he adds butter, roasted yeast and sour cream. A well in the centre is filled with shimmering red curry oil. It’s spectacular.

Marc Brazeau is the GLP’s senior contributing writer focusing on agricultural biotechnology.  He also is the editor of Food and Farm Discussion Lab. Follow him on Twitter @eatcookwrite

Two hours before dinner service commences, Cygnus 27 chef de cuisine Stephan VanHeulen has deftly inspected the kitchen, marveling at the diver scallops — gorgeous, pearly pink and way more substantial than anything you can buy at a supermarket; smelling the exhilarating earthiness of the fluffy hen-of-the-woods, royal trumpet and white beech mushrooms; and tasting the whipped root vegetable purée. But it’s the massive octopus with eight tentacles, a dangerously delicious beast, that stopped him in his tracks.

If warm and sunny: Tuna Tataki "Tortilla," which is an Asian flatbread built on a toasted flour tortilla (yellowfin tuna, avocado crema, shaved red onion, lime, micro cilantro, jalapeño). Just as certain sushi rolls in Aspen include strawberry, the Strawberry Lemon Drop with fresh fruit puree makes a refreshing cockail match. Who knew!

“You still had to follow traditional protocol,” she says. “We were allowed to propose things, but my ideas were always too weird. Out of the norm. ‘Nobody is going to eat that,’ they’d say. Then I went to Yam’Tcha, and that was like, ‘Wow.’”

Nuts may provide the same benefits as fatty fish, making them a great addition to the diet, especially for vegans and vegetarians.

By “recently,” I mean the past couple of decades. And by “moving target,” I mean that those who aren’t inclined to kill it dead have taken to reinventing the institution every few years.

“I do not like sweet pastry crust, or pâte sucrée,” which is almost always present in Parisian pastry-shop tarts,” says Moko. “I like desserts to accentuate the sweetness of natural fruits, so I try to accomplish that by using honey or light fruit jam.”

California law legalized the recreational use of marijuana, but counties and cities can establish their own rules, particularly regarding how it is grown.

Cheers rose from a small crowd when the behemoth tipped the industrial-grade scales to 2,017.5 pounds at a weigh-off in Saratoga Springs, New York.

A word of caution, though. Consuming too many papaya seeds very quickly may confuse your digestive system. Papaya seeds are a known risk to pregnant women and might even affect male fertility if consumed in excess.

Likewise, if you thumb through a seed catalogue for organic farmers and gardeners, the characteristics they tout for their seeds address the same issues over and over: disease resistance, frost resistance, pest resistance and germination timing. Elsewhere the needs are similarly straightforward: salt tolerance, drought tolerance, flood tolerance and greater nutrition for staple crops. Of the big agronomic breeding challenges, only herbicide tolerance is a challenge novel to contemporary times. At the grandest scale, achieving the efficiency of photosynthesis in crops like corn and sugarcane for any crop and nitrogen fixation for any crop seem to verge on science fiction for their ambition, it remains the case that those dreams merely involve moving what nature already does into a wider range of crops.