There was the ultrasonic dishwasher, the atomic food preservation system and countless other wonders housed within its curvy shell.

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To this end, the PLP emphasise training in, for example, literacy (mathematics, English, Urdu), health, agriculture (crop, fish, poultry and livestock production), life skills (peace-building, conflict management and resolution), food processing and preservation and dressmaking.

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Our traditional view of the food chain is that large companies manage it, industrial farms produce for it, food ingredient experts intervene with flavor enhancing and preservation chemicals, and fast food joints or supermarkets shift food to the public, who eat it, often to their detriment.

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"There are a lot of products out there that use tricky wording so you believe it's whole grain when it's not, " says Cynthia Harriman, director of food and nutrition strategies at the Whole Grains Council, a subsidiary of the nonprofit food advocacy group Oldways Preservation Trust.

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It includes the craftsmanship and production of traditional receptacles for the transport, preservation and consumption of food, including ceramic plates and glasses.

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"These homes represented the creation of immense wealth at the turn of the century in the United States, the kind of wealth acquired through fundamental commodities like water, gold, oil and food, " said Katherine Malone-France, the National Trust for Historic Preservation's historic sites director of outreach, education and support.

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