Once upon a time, two brothers with bushy beards sailed a 21-metre-long schooner called Black Seal from New York to the Dominican Republic, where they loaded 20 tonnes of cocoa beans on-board.

Wohl Associates is now selling refurbished industrial coffer grinders that were manufactured by Modern Process Equipment. The 888 model is capable of grinding up to 4,000 lbs. per hour. (PRWeb May 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10751857.htm

Dozens of you have started our Curious City excursions with great questions . Some of those questions were subtle . Others were, um, less so . But few of these questions had an answer turn so much on one word. Jessica Chronister of Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood asked, “What’s still being manufactured in Chicago in terms of factory-made items?” We didn’t notice how one word — “ still ...

CLINTON - Like a knight in shining armor, NYPRO swooped in to help build up Mikro-Mashina from the Soviet-era desolation into which the Russian plastics company had fallen.

Brooklyn's Smorgasburg market gives Barry Divola a taste of the artisan life.