Pioneering restauranteur Alice Waters on Slow Food and more.
Hazelnut spread
Hybrid filberts are the next big thing in biofuels. Move over jatropha!
Baobab products galore
There’s a Baobab Fruit Company in Senegal. Via Timbuktu Chronicles.
Chewing the khat
A traditional narcotic shrub is taking over Yemeni agriculture.
Exterminating the American bison
Advanced European tanning technology did for the buffalo. Not all the men with guns.