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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on August 20, 2007August 20, 2007

Ancient chewing gum

Neolithic Finns chewed birch bark tar for fresh breath, clean teeth.

Posted on August 20, 2007August 20, 2007

Douglas Gayeton photography

Slow Food-type photographs from Tuscany.

Posted on August 20, 2007

East meets West

Big Pharma looks to Chinese medicine.

Posted on August 20, 2007

Mystery camel ailment

Saudi camels are dying in droves. Boffins baffled.

Posted on August 18, 2007

Opiate supply and demand

More on legalizing poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.

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Fresh Nibbles

    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

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