Fish Farming Is Feeding the Globe. What’s the Cost for Locals?
In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.
In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.
Ian Urbina New Yorker Mar 2021 Permalink
The creator of the California-based food chain kills his mother, sister and, finally, himself.
From Hollywood to Anaheim, he had opened a chain of fast-food rotisserie chicken restaurants that dazzled the food critics and turned customers into a cult. Poets wrote about his Zankou chicken. Musicians sang about his Zankou chicken. Now that he was dying, his dream of building an empire, 100 Zankous across the land, a Zankou in every major city, would be his four sons’ to pursue. In the days before, he had pulled them aside one by one -- Dikran, Steve, Ara, Vartkes -- and told them he had no regrets. He was 56 years old, that was true, but life had not cheated him. He did not tell them he had just one more piece of business left to do.
Mark Arax Los Angeles Apr 2008 40min Permalink