re: #169 calochortus

Sorry I had to run. My husband had to eat dinner early tonight and it kind of snuck up on me.

Yes, but the ease, speed and low cost of global shipping mean that for the first time producers from local farmers to steel producers can be at a severe disadvantage in that global market. Cinnamon and pepper weren’t displacing local products-they were rare and desirable and therefore traded around the world.

I’m not so sure it was all that rare. We have this idea of the “past” being some uniform barren dessert. I think there were areas that were relatively cosmopolitan for a period, then for whatever reason, went into a depression and another area became so.

We just have more uniform and reliable global trade than we did in the past.