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Category: History

Posted on July 5, 2007

Absinthe explained

One of the more interesting uses of agricultural biodiversity.

Posted on June 26, 2007June 26, 2007

The roots of Darfur

The world is waking up to the fact that competition for an eroding natural resources base is at least a contributing factors to the tensions of Darfur, whose tragic results then further exacerbate the problem in vicious positive feedback. But Jonathan Robinson said so some years back (via ADE). What took so long?

Posted on June 26, 2007

When’s lunch?

The Food Timeline.

Posted on June 22, 2007

Potholes on the Tequila Trail

Tequila vs maize in the homeland of both.

Posted on June 11, 2007June 11, 2007

Pharaonic eats

Ancient Egyptian cooking.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. What’s wrong with supermarkets.
    2. Cate Blanchett on the Millennium Seed Bank. Attitude to supermarkets unknown.
    3. Access & Benefit Sharing 101. Cate Blanchett unavailable for comment.
    4. Experts weigh in on how we should change how we eat. Nobody but Cate Blanchett will listen, but supermarkets and seeds feature, for what it’s worth.
    5. How they ate in the Middle Ages without supermarkets. Or at least harvested.
    6. After we’re done with medieval haymaking, let’s bring back the aurochs too. And put it in a supermarket?
    7. Yeah but what is a breed anyway? Or an aurochs, for that matter.

    Published on September 9, 2025

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