Ted Nordquist hesitated a moment before picking a mini-cup of yogurt from the shelf at Whole Foods in Sonoma. “Why is this so good that people would pay $3.99 for it?” he asked the cashier, who had no inkling that the customer holding the tiny container of cultured coconut was a vital link in th

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