Nibbles: Chickpeas, Cassava, Maize diversity, Potato diversity, Palm display, Global mistrust, Asparagus, Ramps, Local strawberries

Chickpea harvest more than doubled last year – in the US. Whatever happened to garbanzos?
Introduction to cassava and cyanide.
Conserving maize diversity in Guatemala.
And potato diversity in Peru.
Historical insights into Kew’s museum display of an economically important palm.
Mainstream media still confused about Svalbard and all that.
Asparagus is topologically artichoke. The Botanist in the Kitchen continues her exploration of bracts.
Linguist ramps up his knowledge of the Alliums. (See what I did there? Nothing remarkable, almost everyone else succumbs too.)
It takes real research to grow food locally, ask the scientists in Arkansas. And their supporters.

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“A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.”

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