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very closed operation...Unless you speak French, there’s no need to even bother approaching them to find out how to do it. You can’t get into one of their plants. On the North American continent, there’s only one successful commercial endive business and that’s in Canada. It’s run by a Frenchman who doesn’t speak English, his wife doesn’t speak English and their children all go to French schools,” Kuncewicz said.
He crossed the Atlantic to tackle this closed society of growers. “I went to school in France, to the university there. I speak French. And I tried to get an appointment at the National Institute of Agronomic Research (the French equivalent of the Department of Agriculture) for six months!” Kuncewicz had to drop a few names—specifically his great-great grandfather’s, an officer in Napoleon’s regiment—before he was granted an audience. w
After practically signing his life away, Wit left that meeting with a book published jointly by the Endive Growers Association and the Institute. “It’s the only book on the subject of commercial production that I know of. The endive mafia laughs when you tell them you have the book but it has a lot of in(Continued
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