Invented in Japan, kanten, or agar, originates from Chinese tokoroten and began being produced in the Edo period (1603–1868). Although often confused with gelatin, it is different in a number of ways, ...

When he started recognizing people in the crowd and saw Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Executive Director Nicole DeBoer holding a big check, with Kanten's name on it no less, it still hadn't quite ...

Statistics and stories often present very different pictures of reality. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the silos of data about farm workers. Though residents of the real world have always known ...

Anne Kanten fought bank foreclosures, organized tractorcades to Washington, D.C., and mobilized support for state and federal policy reforms to protect small farmers both in Minnesota and around the ...