The far-reaching benefits of (extended) freshness
Discover the impact of shelf life — keeping baked goods fresher for longer promotes sustainability.
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Discover the impact of shelf life — keeping baked goods fresher for longer promotes sustainability.
—National Security Agency director Robert O’Brien, 2020 U.S. fantasies of expansion, commercial dominion, and military prowess have long hinged on a premise of Pacific exceptionalism. Couched in the millenarian language of manifest destiny, the Pacific region and its multitudinous ecosystems, cultures, peoples, and nations have been vacated in favor of an aqua nullius that frames the region as an empty space designated for U.S. possession by divine providence. This manufactured Pacific idea—what David Palumbo-Liu describes as a “repository of the American imaginary”—has borne ma...