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Not all progress is bad. Rachel Laudan makes a powerful case that modern methods of making sugar and salt are far superior.

I did not know that that the famous Monty Python spam sketch was recorded on 6 June 1970. At least, that’s the claim of a Tumblr obsessed with Minnesota in the 1970s. (Wikipedia says only that “[i]t premiered on 15 December 1970”.) However, I need no encouragement to share a programme on Spam that I […]

The big question is, why do amateur growers and those who choose not to care even need the protection of EU seed legislation?

Most of what you think you know about potatoes and nutrition is wrong.

From a wilderness survival trick to a new theory on Neanderthal cooking.

A bit of history about a new, old hop.

The world of fine chocolate has seen some major change in the past few years, much of it focused on the rise of so-called “bean to bar” chocolate made by smallish producers with an eye on the distinctive qualities of different cacao beans. One company that’s been making a name for itself is Original Beans, […]

Among the more miraculous edible transformations is the one that turns raw meat, salt and a few basic spices into some of the most delicious foods around. Time was when curing meat, especially stuffed into a casing to make a sausage, was the only way both to use every part of an animal and to […]

Peat diggers in Ireland and elsewhere have occasionally unearthed objects, usually made of wood, that contained some kind of greasy, fatty material with a “distinctive, pungent and slightly offensive smell”. Butter. Centuries-old butter. Who buried it, and why, remain mysteries that motivated Ben Reade, an experimental chef at the Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen, to make […]