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Is our excrement simply a waste product, to be dumped out of sight and out of mind? Or is it a valuable resource that we squander at our peril?

Persuading people to drink tea from the subcontinent more or less created the modern propaganda machine

The DNA of chickens, sheep and cattle tells slightly different stories about their domestication

Her aunt’s gnocchi were enough to set Teresa Lust on a long and roundabout journey to learn more about Italian and Italian food.

We know what whole grain means. Whole grain food? Not so much.

Coffee leaf rust is bad, but at least in the short term it may not be the threat you think it is

Food for settlers in New Zealand used to be mutton, mutton, mutton and potatoes or potatoes. Not any more.

You may be wondering, if you care about these things as I do, why there is a chilli species called Capsicum chinense.

Chilli peppers took a few years to reach China after their initial encounter with Westerners, but rapidly became a very hot item.

In Sierra Leone, a hunt for long lost species of coffee succeeds