PhDiva linked to a couple of fun drink-related articles last week. One purported to tell the true story of the origin of champagne. Or rather, of the methode champenoise. All down to an English cider-maker, apparently. The other story described an attempt to recreate Phrygian beer, based on the analysis of residues found on pots. Sounds delicious.
Nibbles: Hops, Green Revolution, Leeks, Hemp, Ethical eating, Cuba, Farmers’ markets
- Brewers vertically integrate themselves. Like Snoopy Miller.
- They met, we ate.
- Roman garden recreated in Wales, complete with leeks.
- “There are around 45,000 different uses for hemp.”
- Drawing the ecotarian line.
- Cuban urban agriculture sprouts anew after Ike.
- List of farmers markets in the US. Luigi asks: where’s the GoogleMaps mashup?
Nibbles: Moringa, Gardening
Agrobiodiversity at the Ara Pacis
A sunday morning wander around the area surrounding the Piazza di Spagna ended with lunch at ‘Gusto and then our first chance to see the Ara Pacis, the Altar of Augustan Peace, in its fancy modernist cocoon. There is some controversy about the meaning of the left scene on the East wall — the so-called Tellus panel:
But there’s no doubting that it is a marvellous hymn to the bounty of agricultural biodiversity. You can see a cow and a sheep. wheat and poppies, grapes and pomegranates. Oh, and a sea serpent. No wonder one of the more solid interpretations identify this lady as Mother Earth.
More details here.
Nibble: Value adding, Dogs, Apples, Goats, ICTs
- BBC interviews Chilean agricultural entrepreneur. This one.
- Ugly dog genes.
- Saving Canada’s orchards. And England’s.
- The tree climbing goats of Morocco.
- Price information on the move.