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The first farmers and their crops moved much further, much earlier, than previously thought. As they did so they grew the confidence, the resources and the knowledge to move up into the mountains and down into the river basins.

Walking tours, revisionist history, jail (click) bait, authenticity, dairy, maltodextrin

Meat exercises the imagination in a way no other food can match. Some people have always wanted to ban carnivory. For others it is an essential fuel. And now, meat is central to nutrition, sustainability, health and capitalism. What does meat mean?

I’ve more or less given up on the story of Xylella in Italy. It is just too distressing. But I continue to follow the news as best as I can, which today brought a post containing this little nugget: Three thousand eradicated trees, as foreseen by Silletti’s plan, would have represented a drop in the […]

Mostly meat, but also beets, fondue and cookbooks

I know I come across as an old fuddy duddy, but I do wish that people who had something really interesting to say, like Flint Dibble, an archaeologist, would say it in an article, even an article somewhere awful like Medium. So I’ve attempted to present these 22 tweets here for other old fuddy duddies […]

Fake news. A Senate bought and paid for. Newspapers printing press releases verbatim. And all more than 100 years ago.

Orwell, peanuts, wot, waste and olives. If you want more, please subscribe to the email version of the newsletter.

Insights into building and running a very successful small bakery, plus the “super colloidal suspension of fat and sugar” that is a specialty of the house.

From dodgy alcohol to faux fugu, and more besides.