Hip young food writer explores a Mexico City food market for the BBC. Hilarity ensues. Not had enough?
Pass the bottle
This was mentioned in a recent comment, but it is worth highlighting more visibly. Andy Waterhouse from the Department of Viticulture and Enology, and Charlie Bamforth, Anheuser-Busch Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences, both at UC Davis, debate wine vs beer. Sounds like a win-win to me.
Nibbles: Ug99, potato flour, rats, bees, cats, horses
- CABI blog summarizes Ug99 situation after one year.
- Let them eat potato croissants! Or so says Peruvian military.
- Boffin finds rats are diverse. Allrightythen.
- As if bees don’t have enough to worry about.
- Pussy scientists, in the news.
- Burkinabé horse festival.
A chef on seed saving
Chef’s Corner seems like a great idea: a blog by an experienced chef interested in American food traditions and the agrobiodiversity that underpins them. A recent post waxed lyrical about seed saving. Problem is, prior to this month’s six posts, the only previous ones were in May 2007. So I’m not sure how serious Chef Robert is about this venture. But I hope he sticks with it.
Nibbles: Bees, weird food, wagyu cattle, medieval agriculture, beer
- India to research bees in detail.
- Yak knob to go with your yak milk, sir?
- George Lucas does his bit to conserve a weird cattle breed, the Japanese wagyu. Well, kinda.
- Was the typical English village founded around 900 AD as a result of monastically-driven agricultural innovation?
- Diverse healthy reasons to drink beer; Luigi unavailable for comment.