Li urged us to stay as long as we wanted, but he also suggested a stop at the supermarket on the corner to buy fruit for the ride ahead.
"The bottom line is this: Food companies are ready and consumers will be able to buy fruit and grocery products over the New Year's holiday and beyond, " said John Block, former secretary of agriculture and current chief of the Food Distributors International.
Dick and Deirdre Shea, owners of Oregon's famed Shea Vineyard in the Yamhill-Carlton area, said that even the winemakers who buy their fruit were willing to share winemaking ideas.
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The campaign, which is part of a wider UK collaboration of conservation organisations, also encourages people to buy British fruit, support local producers and plant fruit trees in their gardens.
" I buy precut fruit and vegetables on my way home from work, even though they are a ridiculous waste of money, because when I actually do cook, it means even more time apart: I'm away in the kitchen and the kids are in the living room on Club Penguin or watching "America's Next Top Model.
Campaigns urge shoppers to buy locally grown fruit in season, and to shun cherries in winter or green beans flown in from Kenya.
One strategy Towson describes is what many of us in the West have done de facto to taste the foreign fruit: buy multinationals with exposure to our target markets.
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The majority of Afghan shoppers who come to the market buy juice, soap and canned fruit.
Farmers are clubbing together to buy tractors and produce more cash crops, such as soft fruit and tobacco.
Although New York City has a measure to restrict the candy- and fruit-flavored tobacco, city youths can easily buy them across the city line.
In particular, the board reckons, the 44m American women aged between 35 and 50 who buy most of America's groceries will now be irresistibly drawn to the fruit formerly known as prunes.
But if you buy into the notion of the university as a place where private investments bear fruit for private returns that kind of speaking truth to power role is less and less possible.
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While there isn't much to buy, the market is a sensual feast of fresh-cut flowers, exotic fruit and interesting characters.
The 1994 ruling of its Court of Justice that Union countries must not buy perishable goods from Turkish Cyprus has halved the area's production of potatoes and citrus fruit.
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