- After yesterday’s thing on gum arabic, CIFOR’s blogger weighs in on frankincense and myrrh. Gums and resins renaissance, anyone?
- VoA on the ITPGRFA, with interview goodness.
- Soy sauce in bullet points.
- A Spanish food historian’s deconstruction of the Mediterranean diet deconstructed by Rachel Laudan.
- Fish in paddies: here comes the science.
- Côte d’Ivoire to revive cacao cultivation. By building a research centre?
- Pleasant, cultured and not so short foray into the history of the sugar industry in Kenya and Mauritius.
- You say sweet potato. I say yam.
- You say yam, so does Rhizowen, and yet … he’s talking about neither Ipomoea nor Manihot.
- Urban agriculture thriving in DR Congo.
Handmade chocolate
This video, and the chocolate, may not be to everybody’s taste … but I liked it. I haven’t tasted the chocolate.
Now, though, would those same people please devote some of their attention to the men and women who grow the beans and do the initial processing.
The truth about breadfruit
Rachel Laudan does a nice job in her latest post of balancing the rather silly Wall Street Journal article of a couple of days ago which suggested that breadfruit, an important staple in the Pacific for hundreds of years, is “inedible.” Read the comments to that article too. Full disclosure: I like the stuff.
More on those parmesan-making Indians
Remember that story I linked to a while back about how Sikh immigrants to northern Italy are keeping alive the art of making parmigiano? Remember how it was in German? Ok, well, now you can read two versions of it in English. But it’s still pretty cool.
Nibbles: Bourdeix, Early ag, Amaranthus in beer
- Dr Roland Bourdeix is the new COGENT Coordinator.
- Early American hunter-gatherers ate maize.
- Dogfish Head crowdsources a new beer. And it’s got NUS. Rejoice.