Bread of life: Fighting world hunger with breadfruit - Miami Herald

Article about the Breadfruit Institute and breadfruit with a recipe for a delicious West Indian breadfruit gratin in the Living section of the Miami Herald newspaper.

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/story/1484435.html

Posted in Media Coverage on Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Cooking With Breadfruit

Article about the Breadfruit Institute and breadfruit with three recipes in SMITHSONIAN online: Arts & Culture.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Cooking-With-Breadfruit.html

Posted in Media Coverage on Friday, August 21st, 2009

Tree of Plenty - The Bounty of Breadfruit

A lone adventurer, a botanical odyssey and the fruit that stands poised to feed the tropical world.

HANA HOU: THE MAGAZINE OF HAWAIIAN AIRLINES
August-September, 2009
Volume 12, No. 4

http://www.hanahou.com/

Download file: Hana_Hou_124_2009_breadfruit.pdf

Posted in Media Coverage on Friday, August 21st, 2009

Newsweek Article - Breadfruit to the Rescue

A team of researchers led by Diane Ragone of the Breadfruit Institute at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kauai, Hawaii, has discovered how to propagate breadfruit en masse to ship to regions in Central America and Africa where it would grow best (and where hunger rates are highest).

This article by Daniel Stone published on line August 1, 2009. Available on newsstands August 10/17 issue.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/210052

Posted in Media Coverage on Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Fostering a passion for the breadfruit

Marooned on a tropical island? Stumped for what to fix for dinner? If you can find breadfruit, your prayers are answered, and National Tropical Botanical Garden's Dr. Diane Ragone will explain it all to you...

This article by Anne O'Malley first appeared in the April 15, 2009 issue of KAUA'I PEOPLE, published weekly by THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER.

Permission granted to NTBG to republish in this format on NTBG's website. View PDF of complete article.

Download file: Kauai_People_Ragone.pdf

Posted in Media Coverage on Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Preserving the Bounty of Breadfruit

Any way you slice it, breadfruit is a big deal.

UBC REPORTS Dec. 4, 2008
University of British Columbia

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2008/08dec04/breadfruit.html

Posted in Media Coverage on Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Breadfruit: A crop of global significance

Breadfruit is well known in the Pacific as a source of food security, and more recently as an export commodity in countries such as Fiji and Samoa. The First International Breadfruit Symposium on Research and Development, which took place in Nadi (16-19 April 2007), revealed that the importance of breadfruit has spread far beyond the borders of the Pacific.

LRD FOCUS 2007
Secretariat of the Pacific Community

http://www.spc.int/lrd/lrd_focus_breadfruit.htm

Posted in Media Coverage on Friday, July 24th, 2009

Breadfruit - KCRW Radio Interview

Evan Kleiman interview with Dr. Diane Ragone, Director of the Breadfruit Institute.

GOOD FOOD October 4, 2008
KCRW, Santa Monica, California


http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/gf/gf081004vertical_farming_ste

Posted in Media Coverage on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009