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Category: Nutrition

Posted on October 25, 2008October 25, 2008

Nibbles: Cereal, Bushmeat, Aquaculture, Olive oil

  • Neolithic parboiled bulgur wheat.
  • Applying “catch shares” to bushmeat.
  • The pros and cons of fish farming in Latin America.
  • “It’s a masochistic business. Masochistic.”
Posted on October 24, 2008October 24, 2008

Nibbles: Bananas, Avocadoes, Slow Food, Chilli, Sweet potatoes

  • Red bananas: one man’s story.
  • Avocado mayonnaise: one woman’s story.
  • Terra Madre, Day 1: one man’s story. Almost like being there.
  • Indoor hot pepper: someone’s grandad’s story.
  • Sweet potatoes: several people’s stories.
Posted on September 22, 2008September 23, 2008

Nibbles: Goats, Fowl, Goats & fowl, Bees

  • Kenyans turn to dairy goats.
  • Ugandans advised to turn to local chickens.
  • Kenyans told: “Change your old farming methods or face starvation.” Jeremy says: “I’m confused.”
  • Irish bees — rescue plan. Thanks Danny.
Posted on September 20, 2008

Nibbles: Moringa, Gardening

  • “Seeing moringa described as the most nutritious of all tropical vegetables, I wondered why there was so much malnutrition in regions where the tree is easily grown and used.”
  • “It’s an historic garden and we’ve kept working it the way it was.”
Posted on September 10, 2008September 11, 2008

Nibbles: Favas, Olives, Insects, Beer, Hallucinogen

  • UK breeders scour ICARDA’s fava beans for better genes. What next? Chianti?
  • Olive cultivation then and now. An archaeologist speaks.
  • Entomophagy.
  • Lager yeast origins.
  • Salvia divinorum: underutilized no longer.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit.
    2. Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication and diversity. You’ll find most of the paper quoted in past Brainfoods.
    3. Grains are great. Especially with greens.
    4. Thank goodness for household seed banking. Especially in conjunction with the formal kind.
    5. All so we can breed a better peanut. And cut down more natural ecosystem?
    6. No, there’s community genebanks for that too…

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