You've had the heirloom tomatoes and artisanal, grass-fed steaks, the small-production wine so perfectly translated from the soil you can almost taste the olive trees growing beside the vine rows.

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Suffice it to say that we are not exactly on the verge of shifting some crop subsidies from corn to, say, olive-growing, which not only would be more healthful but would also make us less dependent on foreign oil.

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