Nibbles: Food, Potatoes, Medicine, Bees, Beer, Food miles, Fungi, Fruits cubed

by Jeremy on November 20, 2008

“Food is the most cost-effective intervention.”
Peru promotes potatoes.
The Importance of Biodiversity to Medicine. Anyone got access? Any mention of nutrition?
EU Says bees should rest. Problem solved.
Extreme beer. All problems solved.
Eat local? I don’t think so.
Itchy Italian gourmands gutted over climate change-caused truffle troubles.
Mulberry trees pay the price for immodesty.
While fig trees planted by Jesuits survive. It’s a funny old world. Fruit tree trifecta in play.
And it comes in! Today’s saving-the-frigging-English-apple story comes to you from The Guardian. Enough already, the English apple is going to be fine.

Fresh Nibbles: February 12, 2012 : <- click to comment

The Tatar Information Agency announces a conference to celebrate NI Vavilov’s 125th birthday, neglects to include date: 25 November 2012?
Rice and ritual expresses the “intangible cultural heritage of agriculture and food”.
Canadian scores four new old tomatoes from their genebank.
The agave fight goes on.

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Featured Comment: February 11, 2012

SLNRao regrets the mistakes of the past, but sees a bright future ahead for grasspea, and its relatives:

Looking at the likely benefits of Homoarginine on the cardiovasculature and emerging concepts on ODAP itself I am of the firm belief that grass pea in coming years will turn into a rich man’s pulse.

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