1 fresh mint leaf, or chocolate for grating (optional)
Instructions:
Place a 5-ounce martini, coupe, or Nick and Nora glass in the refrigerator or freezer for at least 5 minutes.
Place 1 3/4 ounces cold heavy cream, 1 ounce white crème de cacao liqueur, and 3/4 ounce crème de menthe in a cocktail shaker. Add enough ice to fill the shaker halfway full. Seal the shaker and shake until the outside of the shaker is cold and frosty, about 20 seconds.
Pour through a fine-mesh strainer into the glass. Garnish with 1 fresh mint leaf or finely grate chocolate over the surface.
Courtesy: The Kitchn
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Diseases threaten important food crops like cocoa beans, wheat and citrus. Scientists are working to understand these infections — and fight back.
You’ll never see a tree barf or a flower sneeze. Still, plants get sick, much as we do. Their symptoms just look different. Their leaves may curl or drop. Their stems can break out in spots. Their fruit might shrivel.
One such plant sickness is called swollen shoot disease. Over the past two decades, it’s swept through cacao trees in Ivory Coast, a country in West Africa. Cacao is the main ingredient in chocolate. Hundreds of thousands of these trees have sickened or died. “We saw this rapid, rapid death. Trees were dying in one year,” Judy Brown says of the epidemic.
Explainer: What is a virus?
Brown works at the University of Arizona in Tucson. As a plant pathologist, she studies plant disease. Her specialty is viruses, the tiniest type of microbe. In people, viruses cause many illnesses, including the common cold. Viruses also are to blame for swollen shoot disease.
“Many people don’t realize that plants become sick from viruses,” says Brown. Other microbes, including bacteria and fungi, also make plants sick. Insects often spread viruses and other germs from plant to plant.
To stop that spread, farmers usually spray chemicals meant to kill germs or pests. They also may rip out and destroy sick plants. This keeps them from passing the disease on to healthy neighbors. In 2018, the Coffee and Cocoa Council in Ivory Coast announced a plan to uproot 3,000 square kilometers (about 1,200 square miles) of infected cacao trees. That’s an area around the size of Rhode Island.
Even such drastic measures may not go far enough to stop a dangerous disease.
Fortunately, scientists have other tricks up their sleeves. Researchers are working to understand crop diseases, identify sick plants, fight the attackers and breed plants that can fight illness on their own. They hope such efforts will keep foods like chocolate, bread and oranges on all of our plates for centuries to come.
Romain Aka (left) looks for signs of disease on a cacao tree. This plant pathologist works at the National Center for Agricultural Research in Ivory Coast. Together with Judy Brown, he studies swollen shoot disease.
CREDIT: Courtesy of Judy Brown
