http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/08/is-a-sugar-shortage-looming/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/08/is-a-sugar-shortage-looming/comment-page-1/#comment-969 Hawaiian Food -- Beyond the Tiki Torches | Food & Think Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:43:31 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=2878#comment-969 [...] Sugar cane was once one of the state’s chief agricultural products. Commercial production began in the early 1800s, with the help of labor imported from Asia (one of the sources of the islands’ cultural diversity). Conditions and pay were notoriously dismal, as was the impact on the environment. Rising labor costs after Hawaii gained statehood, as well as the value of land in the increasingly tourist-based economy, helped lead to the decline of the Hawaiian sugar industry. Today only two producers of raw sugar remain in the state, and one of them, Gay & Robinson, last year announced its plans to transition to ethanol and renewal energy production in 2010. [...] [...] Sugar cane was once one of the state’s chief agricultural products. Commercial production began in the early 1800s, with the help of labor imported from Asia (one of the sources of the islands’ cultural diversity). Conditions and pay were notoriously dismal, as was the impact on the environment. Rising labor costs after Hawaii gained statehood, as well as the value of land in the increasingly tourist-based economy, helped lead to the decline of the Hawaiian sugar industry. Today only two producers of raw sugar remain in the state, and one of them, Gay & Robinson, last year announced its plans to transition to ethanol and renewal energy production in 2010. [...]

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/08/is-a-sugar-shortage-looming/comment-page-1/#comment-968 Sampler: what’s new on the web in food | The Sage of Discovery Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:49:47 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=2878#comment-968 [...] & Think discusses the sugar shortage: its detrimental impact on American business and its positive impact on the American [...] [...] & Think discusses the sugar shortage: its detrimental impact on American business and its positive impact on the American [...]

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