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This week’s pickings from the rich table of food, health, history and scams.

With a bag of porridge oats in my baggage, I set off for Georgetown University and a date with science

Coffee is classist, Tomatoes are diverse, Modern wheat is not guilty, the UK food system may well get worse, let’s hear it for chewy.

Quite by coincidence, I listened to two podcasts about coffee back to back. Well, it wasn’t truly a coincidence; I saw that there were two in my queue and so I interfered with the ordering to listen to them one after the other. Anyway, Benjamen Walker’s Wake up and smell the coffee was the kind […]

Unlike car sharing, when you buy a share in a cow, you are not free to drive her wherever you want. So what do you get?

“Old” wheats, old yeast, old feast plus my holiday gifts to you.

Vicky Bennison set out to record Italian grannies making pasta and along the way created terrifically watchable videos

From Russia to New Zealand, a sackful of food-related stories

“Turkey wattle was ground, mixed with chocolate, and fed to the enemies of the Aztecs because it was believed to cause impotence.”

Mozambique used to be the world’s largest supplier of cashew nuts. Then along came the World Bank, to help.