- The Silk Road Gourmet talks about Reconstructing Cuisines And Recipes From The Ancient World.
- Colin Tudge splutters about The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture.
- India’s ongoing onion crisis still a vale of tears.
- But India’s jowar (sorghum) still offers superficial health benefits.
- You know how all the US soybeans are being exported to China? Think again.
- How the nasturtium got its spur; not a just-so-story.
- California discovers the productive miracle of fish in rice paddies.
Nibbles: Apples, Peanuts, Seeds
- It was Apple Day in the UK yesterday; here’s a decent account.
- The origin of the peanut; an account you may be able to understand.
- An amazing online seed finder: only in America.
Nibbles: Oca, Tasmanian Potatoes, Pasture diversity, Training for NUS, Kales
- There are still people who think oca is a kind of potato. After all we’ve done for them.
- And speaking of New Zealand Yams, here’s an old article about Tasmanian boutique potatoes.
- Pasture diversity for animal welfare and profit
- Young scientist in sub-Saharan Africa? Get trained on aspects of neglected and underutilized species.
- So you thought kale was an ancient veggie? Think again. NYT features kale innovators.
Nibbles: Giant Pumpkin, Seed Saving
- Object Analysis of the Giant Pumpkin. Just in time for Halloween, obviously.
- The Need to Save Seeds is a Bad Sign. Because it means you’re not using great seed that’s worth paying for. Listen, we just link to this stuff, OK?
Nibbles: Frogs, Spuds, Apples, Cucumbers, Tosh?
- Take that, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys. England boasts oldest eaten anuran legs.
- Ban potatoes NOW! You know it makes sense.
- As American as industrially harvested, intellectually protected apples.
- Step aside Golden Rice; the Golden Cucumber is just over the horizon. That and much more from deep re-sequencing.
- Also just over the horizon, hordes of new, public domain banana varieties, although they don’t actually own the domain the video points to. Oops. h/t Bifurcated Carrots.