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Nibbles: Pickles, Oysters, Hops, Coconut crab, Korean cuisine, Ecuador ecotourism

Pickling facts.
Trouble for the French oyster.
Grow-your-own hops.
Saving the coconut crab.
Korea launches website of traditional recipes. Looks great, but all in Korean, alas.
Our friend Karen Williams’ work on agrobiodiversity conservation in Ecuador highlighted.

Saving red rice in India. Note comment from Bhuwon.
India again: “We have not been able to sow rice. Our corn crop has been destroyed by pests. We have nothing to eat. We have nothing to feed our cattle.”
Morocco: “The farmers started using more subterranean water, but that has almost been used up, putting us on a straight line to desertification.” But, “[r]esearchers have also introduced new varieties of grain that in laboratory tests have proven resistant to water stress or drought.”
Another Slow Food interview. Zzzzzzzzzz.
Cuppa weird joe?
IITA and others save cassava in West Africa.
Nice photo essay on a thoroughbred stud farm.
Take the wheat quiz.
Where is our heirloom ketchup?

Donwload a guide to sustainable sushi.
It was World Mangrove Day last Sunday. Who knew.
Poland/Belarus’s Bialowieza Primeval Forest and its bison threatened by climate change, politics.
Endangered dormouse found crossing highway, but is it the edible sort beloved of the Romans?
“Endangered heritage breeds have one saving grace: They’re generally tasty.” Even in cocktails.
Radix gets to grips with Apios americana. Good luck!
Did someone say fermentation?
Did someone say single-issue bores?