Jeremy Cherfas

Nibbles: Cucurbits, Climate change cuisine, Passover pulses, Quinoa grant, Sago network

The botanist in the kitchen takes on the diversity of squashes. And pumpkins. And some gourds. So we don’t have to.
Aren’t you glad we’re here to tell you that “Potato Beans” are Apios americana? Why do we even link to this stuff?
Split peas split Jewish communities. Because it allows us to have fun.
Like this: USDA grant condemns Bolivian peasants to eternal poverty but better nutrition.
I see your allegedly neglected crop and raise you a really neglected one.

Speak French? Unaware? The Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research has leaflets for you.
Indian writer bites the hands that feeds him. Well, somebody had to.
Israeli eaters bite the pests that plague them.
Debunking the mystery of whisky, the bastards. A muckle more detail here.
Backpack Farm is in the news again. We still want to know, what’s in those backpacks, and how diverse are they.
So you’ve been growing corn (maize) continuously and your yields are dropping precipitously? Scientists: Now we know why!
Expert tells potato centre all about oca. Fact No. 1: it isn’t a potato.
“Rice-fish cultivation produces environmental services.” What, in addition to rice and fish? Praise be.

World this day, world that day, world the other day.

Yesterday, forests, today water. Thanks, CIAT, for giving us a lazy way out.

Dr Livingstone’s collection, I presume?
Friday will be World Water Day. Use fertilisers more sensibly for a win-win.
Catching up with old news — the coconut-flavoured pineapple — Nigel Chaffey has only one question: Yes, but WHY?.