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January 22, 2008

Making wine

How to make wine. With pic goodness. AA unavailable for comment.

January 22, 2008

Ark of Taste

Slow Food databases “forgotten flavours.” Thanks, Lubin.

January 20, 2008January 19, 2008

The phylogeny of a human disease

The Columbian Exchange included syphillis.

January 20, 2008

The story of the St Bernard

There’s a stuffed St Bernard called Barry in a museum in Berne.

January 19, 2008

Cattalo complicating plans to restore Great Plains

More on the bison‘s polluted genome.

1. The COUSIN project aims to conserve (trans situ, no less) and use crop wild relatives in Europe.
2. That “use” part can be tough.
3. But that doesn’t stop the fine people at Aardaia. At least where aardaker (Lathyrus tuberosus) is concerned.
4. From alternative potatoes in the Netherlands to alternative beans in Indonesia. All in the cause of diversification.
5. No need to find an alternative to amaranth in the American SW. Not with devoted chefs on the job.
6. The Iraqi Seed Collective is taking seeds from American genebanks to that country’s diaspora in the US, and eventually back to Iraq itself. Maybe chefs will help.
7. Good thing there are genebank backups, eh?
Published on July 9, 2025