…when you find the pumpkin (kahurura) plants defoliated to colour the mashed potatoes.
Beer diversity on tap
Dock Street Brewery … announces the release at the West Philadelphia brewery and restaurant of Sudan Grass Sorghum Ale, a draft-only beer “inspired by the traditional fermented sorghum beverages found in Africa”. And that ain’t all.
Tony Knipling of Vecenie Distributing notes that the Millvale distributor has several interesting new brews, including “Pittsburgh’s first Slovenian import,” Lasko Club; Brasserie Pietra brews from Corsica, one brewed with chestnuts and another with with myrtle, strawberry, rockrose and spices; Scottish craft brews (including one made with guarana, kola nuts and poppy seeds) from Brew Dog; and Sah’tea, described as a “modern update of Finnish beer” brewed with black tea, juniper berries and other spices and hot river rocks, from Delaware’s always-edgy Dogfish Head.
Hot river rocks? Luigi will be sampling in due course.
Biodiversity in agriculture
We need to look at food security not only in terms of quantity of food but the quality of food, that will have an impact on health outcomes. And that requires diverse diet based on a broad use of local agricultural biodiversity.
Emile Frison, Director-General of Bioversity International, in a Q&A with Sabina Zaccaro and Miren Gutierrez of IPS.
Nibbles: Bamboo, Methane, Obama, Pests
- Fiat ghost paper. From bamboo.
- “If a cow burps, how do you measure it?“
- Recruiting drive: “I want you to continue to be my little ambassadors in your own home and your own communities.”
- “Insects and humans compete for food.” Say it isn’t so, Lubin Library.
Nibbles: Wild sweet potatoes, Celiac, Chains, Medicinal tea, Salvia
- How to do interspecific crosses in Ipomoea.
- Proprietary blend of amaranth, buckwheat, teff, millet, quinoa, sorghum and cassava flour for gluten-free diets.
- Making food standards work for smallholders. Yeah, right.
- Rauvolfia vomitoria leaf tea good for diabetes. Bit worried about that epithet though.
- Mexican sage banned in another state. Pass the peyote then.