Nibbles

Nibbles: Black sheep, Salty rice, Spanish melons, Olive diversity, Food sculpture, Seed art, Navajo peaches, Grain amaranth, PNG yams, Avocado recipes, Abbasid cooking

Just back from a nice holiday, and greeted by Jeremy’s latest newsletter, which includes, among many delights, a post from Old European Culture on black sheep in the Balkans.
Traditional salt-tolerant rice varieties making a comeback in India.
Traditional melon varieties exhibited by genebank in Spain.
Trying to make the most of traditional olive varieties.
Traditional foods are depicted in stone on Seville’s cathedral.
And more recent attempts to celebrate biodiversity in art.
I guess one could call traditional these old peaches that used to be grown by the Navajo. Have blogged about them before, check it out.
No doubt that amaranth is a traditional crop in Central America. I doubt that it will “feed the world,” but it can certainly feed a whole bunch more people. Thanks to people like Roxanne Swentzell.
There’s nothing more traditional than yams in Papua New Guinea. For 50,000 years.
How to remix a traditional food like stuffed avocado.
How many of the traditional recipes in these Abbasid and later Arab cookbooks have been remixed, I wonder?

Well of course there’s a hedge collection.
Downloadable UNAM volume of the origin and diversification of maize (in Spanish).
Catalog of the native potatoes curated by Indigenous communities in a region of Peru.
I’m all for protein diversification, but what exactly is it?

How trees can alleviate poverty.
How trees can help fight climate change. And how they cannot.
How trees can contribute to diverse sustainable landscapes.
How wild fruit trees (among other things) helped in the Covid-19 crisis.
Not entirely sure if there are any trees among the burgeoning community seedbanks of China.