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Strawberry Fields, Forever?

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America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

As one of the most commonly consumed berries in the world, strawberries are a beloved household snack. But this soft, sweet fruit has a rocky history. From immigration to incarceration, Japanese Americans are integral to the California Strawberry origin story. Through three generations of Japanese strawberry farmers, reporter Hannah Kirshner brings us a story of ingenuity and resilience. To learn more about Japanese Americans and Strawberry farming, read: A Taste for Strawberries, by Manabi Hirasaki with Naomi Hirahara Strawberry Days, by David Neiwert For more about Japanese American history, check out: Japanese American National Museum Densho.org Nature Behind Barbed Wire, by Connie Y. Chiang See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thanks to this season's presenting sponsor, Kohler, they designed innovative sinks and

0:05.5

faucets for people who do their best work in the kitchen.

0:13.4

Food is amazing!

0:15.6

Well, no duh, right?

0:17.9

But hear me out.

0:20.3

I can walk out my door, and in 10 minutes, return home with halibut.

0:26.3

A piece of halibut!

0:28.1

Think of all that had to happen for that fish to be caught, processed, packaged, transported

0:33.7

to my specific grocery store, and made available to me.

0:38.3

That process, frankly, is a wonder.

0:40.8

Now, let's talk about a more amazing example.

0:44.7

Fruit.

0:45.7

Specifically, strawberries.

0:48.3

You might think strawberries hold hum, but it used to be that strawberry season was

0:52.8

just a few months long, peaking around June.

0:56.2

Not so long ago, if you wanted to taste strawberries in the dead of winter, well, good luck.

1:01.4

But these days, you get to buy big, juicy, incredibly sweet strawberries year-round.

1:07.6

It's a miracle of science.

1:10.3

If you buy strawberries in the US, there's a good chance they're grown in California.

1:14.8

That's where 90% of strawberries in the US come from.

1:18.8

Driscolls, nature-ripe, giant berry farms, you probably know the big names.

1:22.9

Wow, look at all these strawberry fields.

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