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Alternative food facts tramp across the landscape the hordes of the undead. Tom Nealon’s new book Food Fights & Culture Wars aims to lay some of them to rest.

… and the Romans did knead. Just getting peeved at two things in an otherwise interesting interview with Jim Lahey

Short links to long reads: fish, race, yeasty egg whites, doom, grissini

[F]reshness is responsible for much of the safety as well as the deliciousness of Vietnamese dishes. Researchers have found freshness to be the most preferred attribute of pork for Vietnamese consumers, with pork meat typically being purchased very fresh every day.”

Perhaps you’ve heard about IBM’s giant Watson computer, which dispenses ingredient advice and novel recipes. Jaan Altosaar, a PhD candidate at Princeton University, is working on a recipe recommendation engine that anyone can use.

Where’s the romance in milking 300 sheep by hand, twice a day?

50 not out! Foods far from home and a little more on fat taxes and thin subsidies.

In the wake not only of the podcast here but a lot of other discussion around the interwebz, here are a couple of bits of research that help to untangle the complex relationships between economics and diet.

You can eat a perfectly nutritious diet for a lot less money than the US government says you need. But would you want to?

20 February 2017

Stimulation for mind and body; keeping harvests dry, making cacao harvest go further, coping with abundant harvests, the harvest of food anthropology, the biology of maca.

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Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread was a series of micro-episodes on the history of wheat and bread, with an episode every day through the month of August 2018.

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