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Kraut capital under a mixed blessing in upstate village
In the upstate New York village of Phelps, population 1500, sauerkraut production forms a regional identity. The area supplies over a third of the nation's 424 million pounds, aided by research at the Geneva Experiment Station and a history of local cabbage farming, while facing pollution and waste challenges from brine and solid byproducts.
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Jane Brody Phelps
N.Y
Nyt
Phelps
Rochester
Syracuse
New York State Experiment Station
Geneva
China
Europe
James Lind
Wisconsin
Ohio
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