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At Addiopizzo’s headquarters, Marannano points to a map delineating the borders of Mafia families’ territory in the city. Many businesses who pay are not driven by fear but by habit and convenience, he says. “If I am a butcher and another butcher opens in my area with competitive prices, that’s annoying to me. If I’ve paid my pizzo, the Mafia will go to them and explain, ‘Amico, this is the price.’ ”

More recently, the company engaged with Atlantic Capes Fisheries Inc., New Bedford, Mass., to come up with a packaging solution for sea scallops. After a year’s development, the Blue Seawell tray was introduced at this year’s Boston seafood show.

In response, companies such as Bayer have sought partners for their own precision spraying systems, while ChemChina’s Syngenta is looking to develop crop protection products suited to the new equipment.

Then one day, residents of Mosul saw earthmovers heading toward a neighborhood called the Industrial Area in the eastern half of the city. Laborers were seen paving a new blacktop road that would eventually run for roughly one mile, connecting two areas of the city and reducing congestion.

From near zero production in the 1980s, Montana now ranks as the nation's No. 1 producer of field peas and lentils, and the third largest producer of garbanzo beans. The combined value of these crops in 2013 exceeded $140 million. Montana's pulse harvest is now more valuable than its durum wheat production.

It was a Tervapiru (“Tar Devil”), and it did, indeed, smell like a black-market cigarette with the filter torn off. I felt as if it also tasted strongly of tar, though I can’t say for sure, not having knowingly tasted tar before. (Finns add tar, derived in their country from wood rather than coal, to various foods as a smoky flavoring agent.)

Part of the answer can be found in more than 15,000 pages of internal Islamic State documents I recovered during five trips to Iraq over more than a year.

Mr Rocher did, however, say it was 'too early' to say whether the link between the British prince and the French lentil will have a major effect on sales. 

A quiet transformation is taking place in grain fields across Montana. In less than 20-years pulse crops — peas, beans and lentils — have grown from an obscure specialty crop with limited market outlets to become one of the state's top agricultural exports.

Everyone in the room laughed uncomfortably. Yet it did make a certain amount of sense. Sweetness often needs to be balanced with a little tang, and so “baby vomit” wouldn’t be an entirely unattractive quality in a caramel.

Made in collaboration with MINDS (movement for the the intellectually disabled of Singapore), ecosenses’ cleaning products are formulated with a fruit-based enzyme technology. Unused fruit peels are collected from hawkers, which are then sent to MINDS to ferment – a natural process which results in this chemical-free cleaning liquid that is both gentle on the hands and the environment. Available as a floor cleaner, surface cleaner, and dishwashing liquid.

Young George was last week offered a lunch of either lamb ragout with garlic and herbs, pork stroganoff with red peppers or smoked mackerel on a bed of puy lentils.