Nat DiBuduo: Politics, Water & California Farming - Dining and Cooking

Nat DiBuduo: The Godfather of California Grapes Reflects on Tradition, Change, and the Future of Wine

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"I would like to believe that the world can still be saved but I know that if it is, it can’t include Los Angeles and I’m left cold about the rest. [..] The planet is too abstract. Save the world sounds like a joke. Lose my city sounds like the end of the world."

#California Triptych

An essay on #ecocide and fatalism in #LosAngeles

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/california-triptych/
#LAfires #CaliforniaWaterCrisis #urbanism #cities

"It's actually the largest man-made modification to the surface of the Earth, because so much land has sunk so much.."

#PistachioWars is an investigative #documentary into billionaire pistachio farmers and #WaterBarons Stewart & Lynda Resnick, who it's alleged are flagrantly bending the parched state's political system and privatising #water to feed their vast farming empire in the desert

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018910121/the-kiwi-film-maker-lifting-the-lid-on-california-s-pistachio

#WaterCrisis #CaliforniaWaterCrisis #PrivatizationOfWater #IntensiveAgriculture

The kiwi film-maker lifting the lid on California's pistachio

Pistachio nuts have become a popular snack around the world but a new documentary about where they come from and how they're farmed might make pistachio lovers think again before shelling their next nut. Dunedin film-maker Rowan Wernham has teamed up with US journalist Yasha Levine to tell the story of a bitter battle being waged in California where 90 percent of the world's pistachios are produced. Pistachio Wars is an investigative documentary into billionaire pistachio farmers and water barons Stewart and Lynda Resnick, who it's alleged are fragrantly bending the parched state's political system and privatising water to feed their vast farming empire in the desert.

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