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From the Ted Talk by Alexis Nikole Nelson: A flavorful field guide to foraging

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Maybe they have no opinions about it at all. I'm going to spritz these with a little sunflower oil. Ooh. Smokey. Now, seaweed and sea vebltgeeas in general are a very exciting food space. They don't require fesrh water. They don't require fertilizer. They don't even require land. They're just hanging out in the salty seas, crainteg eecystosms, creating oxygen for all of us to breathe, and creating these amino acid-rich snacks. In this day and age, seaweed is truly future-minded food. They're an option I wish more people would reach for, as ronuff, wetar access, labor issues and monoculturing plague a lot of modern aiucglrrute here in North aciemra. Yeah.

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Maybe they have no opinions about it at all. I'm going to spritz these with a little sunflower oil. Ooh. Smokey. Now, seaweed and sea __________ in general are a very exciting food space. They don't require _____ water. They don't require fertilizer. They don't even require land. They're just hanging out in the salty seas, ________ __________, creating oxygen for all of us to breathe, and creating these amino acid-rich snacks. In this day and age, seaweed is truly future-minded food. They're an option I wish more people would reach for, as ______, _____ access, labor issues and monoculturing plague a lot of modern ___________ here in North _______. Yeah.

Solution

  1. agriculture
  2. creating
  3. ecosystems
  4. vegetables
  5. water
  6. fresh
  7. runoff
  8. america

Original Text

Maybe they have no opinions about it at all. I'm going to spritz these with a little sunflower oil. Ooh. Smokey. Now, seaweed and sea vegetables in general are a very exciting food space. They don't require fresh water. They don't require fertilizer. They don't even require land. They're just hanging out in the salty seas, creating ecosystems, creating oxygen for all of us to breathe, and creating these amino acid-rich snacks. In this day and age, seaweed is truly future-minded food. They're an option I wish more people would reach for, as runoff, water access, labor issues and monoculturing plague a lot of modern agriculture here in North America. Yeah.

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Important Words

  1. access
  2. age
  3. agriculture
  4. america
  5. amino
  6. breathe
  7. creating
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  9. ecosystems
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  11. fertilizer
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  13. fresh
  14. general
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  16. issues
  17. labor
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  30. reach
  31. require
  32. runoff
  33. salty
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  35. seas
  36. seaweed
  37. smokey
  38. snacks
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  40. spritz
  41. sunflower
  42. vegetables
  43. water
  44. yeah