Climate change causes blueberry war.
Alfred H. Peet dies
The “grandfather of specialty coffee” goes to the big caffè in the sky.
Italian fruit on show
Blast, I missed the Mostra Pomologica!
IPM worth a fortune in New Zealand vineyards
NZ grape growers discover value of local biodiversity: NZ$1000 per ha per year.
African food blogging
Emeka Okafor over at Timbuktu Chronicles points to a blog that sounds really fascinating: BetumiBlog. Betumi is the African Culinary Network. It “connects anyone who delights in African cuisine, foodways, and food history.” BetumiBlog is run by Fran Osseo-Asare, who is clearly incredibly knowledgeable and enthusiastic about African food and cooking. She has contributed a chapter on Food and Foodways to the Sub-Saharan Africa volume of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture 1. That includes a very useful table summarizing the many different ways Africans prepare their starchy staples. My personal score is nine.