Nibbles: Ottoman food, Georgian cheese, Livestock data, Welsh oats, Spices, Global apples, Cape gooseberry, In vitro

From börek to burricche.
The mother of Georgian cheese. I’m sure they have their version of börek there too. If not, there’s always bread.
Fancy StoryMap of global livestock production. No wonder there’s lots of cheese in Georgia.
Bringing back rare Welsh oats. Well, someone has to…
A short history of cinnamon. Does it go with börek?
Beautiful apples. And some so ugly they are beautiful.
Crowd-sourcing Physalis improvement. Very tempting.
How to conserve in vitro and in cryo. Useful for the three things above, for example.

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.