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A Perfect Little Example Of What My Work Is All About

Food, land use, immigration, and people doing normal things when we let them

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Addison Del Mastro
Jun 29, 2026
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A couple of months ago, I noticed this curiously packaged product at my Fairfax, Virginia H-Mart (Korean supermarket chain with other Asian products/ingredients):

I obviously cannot read the label, but it appears to be finely crushed pepper flakes, a pretty common ingredient in Korean cuisine. What really caught my attention, though, was not the product …

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