On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jean-Louis Tu wrote:

> It is true that farms in France are on average smaller (everything is
> smaller: streets, shops, cars, people...) but I don't find that
> produce here tastes particularly good. Californian grapes taste better
> than French ones, and Sunkist oranges taste at least as good as the
> best Spanish oranges.

I wonder do you have thoughts on why this is?

Lucia