Nibbles: Dog, Beer, Human Planet, Entomophagy, Food Atlas, Pepper, Barley

When dog was on the menu.
Going far, and far back, for beer. And indeed yeast. Always worth the effort.
BBC launches Human Planet, focusing on “man’s remarkable relationship with the natural world.” Which apparently doesn’t include agriculture.
Mexicans eat many moth species, and not just the larvae.
Amazing interactive food atlas for the US. wish I had a use for it, but someone surely does.
Breeding a “better” Jalapeño pepper — to hold more cheese, natcho.
Food as politics; the tsampa-eaters of the TAR. h/t GOOD.

A paean to diverse diets is just what we all need.
And another one, from the MIT Technology Review of all places.
Menawhile, there’s only one reference to dietary diversity in the World Bank’s investment framework for nutrition.
Maybe you have to quantify that diversity before you can save it? Now where have I heard that before?
Meanwhile, Europe reports on biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Does that include the biodiversity of the actual crops? Perhaps surprisingly, yes!
You want biodiversity-friendly farming practices? Talk to Indigenous people. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched an e-consultation on “Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems.”
There’s diversity in asparagus too.
Genebanks can help with those biodiversity-friendly practices, diverse diets and rops and Indigenous practices.
Even big international genebanks.
Even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
But some are in trouble.
Though others are coming back.