I guess you learn something new every day. I knew that baby carrots didn’t really come out like that–all perfect and rounded and small. I mean, carrots are a root vegetable and root vegetables are not pretty. So when an article came across my desk about the origins of the baby carrot, I decided to share. Baby carrots were invented (I didn’t even know someone could ‘invent’ a vegetable), by a guy named Mike Yurosek. Mike, a California based farmer had a perplexing dilemma. Every year, he was throwing away approximately 4 tons of carrots because apparently people wouldn’t buy … Continue reading →