Nibbles

Nibbles: Wheat Revolutions, Animal domestication, Sanbokan, Sea Island heirlooms, No regrets transformation, Peruvian smallholders, Seed systems book, Genebank vid, Business

BBC Food Programme on wheat, with the authors of Amber Waves and The Man Who Tried to Feed the World.
Tides of History podcast on livestock domestication with Prof. Greger Larson. He thinks “domestication” should be used as a descriptor of a state rather than a label for a process. He also thinks that animals became “domesticated” basically only once (except for pigs).
A citrus fruit you never heard of is crucial to Japanese cuisine.
Bringing back heirloom rice and other traditional crops in the Sea Islands. And more.
Building back better: from 200 food systems recommendation to 41 no regrets actions. And why we need them NOW!
A Peruvian peasant organization goes digital.
Huge book on strengthening seed systems in South Asia.
Nice CGN video on seed processing in genebanks.
How can businesses value biodiversity? Here come the guidelines.

Finding the Colorado Orange apple.
British duck breed goes wild in Thailand.
Might consumers care about genetics?
Well they do, right? At least if they’re into heirloom varieties and heritage breeds.
If they do care, they should read this book.
Is madeira your desert island wine?

The colonial history of the jackfruit in Sri Lanka.
“…some of the best cider you can drink is as funky and wild as a 1970s Berlin bathhouse.” Ok, you twisted my arm.
The world in a Philadelphia watermelon stand.
Bee Wilson’s review of wheat book Amber Waves by Catherine Zabinski.
The Canadian genebank at 50.
Oh shoot I missed National Pawpaw Day.
Podcast on carrot breeding using crop wild relatives.