Cooking

Nibbles: Transformation, Livestock pod, Coffee pod, GHUs, Viz double, Yaupon, Wild foods, GRIN, Korean vegetables, Oz Indigenous bakers, Warwick vegetables

IAASTD ten years on. Not many people hurt.
Interesting new ILRI podcast hits the airwaves.
And here’s another new podcast: A History of Coffee. So far so pretty good.
Meanwhile, CIP rounds up recent webinars on germplasm health.
Fun visualizations on the seasonality of food.
Speaking of visualizations, RAWGraphs is a pretty neat tool.
North America used to have a native caffeinated beverage, the attractively named Ilex vomitoria.
Maybe South Africa’s local wild foods have a better chance.
Using USDA’s genebank database, GRIN.
Not sure if this Korean-American farmer does (access USDA’s genebank database, do keep up), but probably.
I wonder if any of these Australian wild foods will find their way into a genebank, just in case.
Genebanks like the UK veggie one at Warwick.

Still have no idea whether “ube” is a yam or sweetpotato.
Uganda breeding its way to higher coffee production.
Wanna help USDA collect germplasm?
But what data are you gonna record on all that new stuff?
Chatham House says change diets, protect nature and practice sustainable farming for a better food system. Gonna need genebanks in support of all those.

Very expensive new book on Roman and old reasonable one on Jewish cooking for that special person in your life.
Places you can buy heirloom seeds for that special person in your life.
The special person that is the new head of the UPM Plant Germplasm Bank in Spain.
I learned from this article on a newly excavated Tudor garden about a pretty special grapevine.
Cassava is pretty special, despite its reputation.