Podcasts

Nibbles: Taste edition

The Stairway to Heaven of barley breeding for whiskey involves thinking about taste a bit more.
Taste comes into maize breeding too.
Jeremy talks taste with Margot Finn. Oh and there’s his latest newsletter.
Farmerama podcasts on cereals in small-scale farming in the UK and beyond.
Nothing small-scale about ancient farming in the Nile Valley.
Make ancient Roman bread during lockdown. Then compare and contrast with the Egyptian kind?
What did the Romans ever do for the rural economy of Britain anyway?
Course on communicating the value of biodiversity. Wasn’t all the above enough?

The mango whisperer.
Conserving the Khola chilli.
Going back to Fiji for this fundraising meeting next week. Follow along on Twitter.
Are we on the Titanic?
Vintage cookbooks galore. If we’re going down, might as well go down in style.
Jeremy’s podcast on cereal cultivation’s 3-step program for spreading around Eurasia.

Jeremy has an interview with Martin Jones on the latest Eat This Podcast. Dr Jones, Pitt Rivers professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, was an author of the paper on the prehistoric globalization of cereals that we blogged about here a couple of weeks back. Well worth a listen.