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Insects will not make pet food more sustainable either
Somewhat sad to see Marion Nestle, with whom I almost... Read more →
All past episodes. Enjoy browsing, and if you are looking for something in particular, try Search on the right.
Today’s dishes are data rich.
The fuss about Hampton Creek’s eggless oil emulsion has obscured other eggless players … and the real point.
The Dark Ages ran for about 400 years, from around the fall of the Roman Empire, in the middle of the 6th century, to around the 10th or 11th centuries. It was dark because the light of Rome had been extinguished, while that of the Renaissance had not yet burst into flame. And it was […]
Bread, tea and bird poop; a diverse diet trawled from the internet for your delectation.
A little bit of science, on how modern plant breeding has changed the nutrition of staple crops.
“Forget organic. Eat local.” Nice, simple advice, from the cover of Time magazine. But more or less pointless. There’s so much more to food systems than just the distance the food travels. Tim Lang coined the phrase food miles. We talked about the complexities of the food system.
Two very different approaches to the social baggage of chickpea purée.
“Never apologise, never explain” is all very well, but … I’ve been away, and I wasn’t able to do much finding or sifting the flowers of the internet. So, here you go:
That sink is where Rachel Roddy, an English woman in Rome, prepares meals to share with her partner Vincenzo, their young son Luca, and a horde of appreciative readers of her website and, now, her first book. Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome, features the sink on its front cover. That […]
Another round-up of food-flavoured findings, oddly negative for some reason. Heigh-ho.