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We only nibbled it here, but Andy over at Ecosystems and Poverty has a somewhat longer post about the new book on the “lost fruits” of Africa. Maybe we should have given it more respect. The previous books in the series, which covered Africa and the Andes, are very good indeed.
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Rahul Goswami shares the history of fishing:
You know, on the west coast of India they wouldn’t go out to fish during the monsoon. Not because those amazing catamarans (the Malayali-origin word is ‘kattumaram’, more or less) can’t ride the big waves, but because the fish need time to breed.
There’s more, in the context of avoiding industrial meat … and fish is a meat, no?
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There have been two previous books in the Africa series, one on grains and one on vegetables.