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From the first last supper to the resurrection roll.

If you hurry you can buy a box of cereal and support research into perennial crops

Federal fishery subsidies, gluten-free hazards, general nutritional hazards and some mysteries large and small. Additional thoughts sent to email subscribers.

William Rubel doesn’t think there is good bread or bad bread, but he knows what he likes.

From teething toys that show you care to one man’s heartbreaking I-opened-my-dream-restaurant story, with fish, beef and chicken, and no organics!

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