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5 October 2022
People (well, a person, but still) asked about the incidental music in my recent episode on Mothers and Milk. It is my interpretation of one of the Child ballads, No. 40, The Queen of Elfan’s Nourice. How we got there is a bit of a roundabout story.
3 October 2022
How can the simple and vital connection between mother and baby possibly be considered shameful?
20 September 2022
The average American starts in on a fad diet four times a year. A quarter give up after two weeks. What are they hoping for?
4 July 2022
The ability to tax wheat moving through choke points gives empires their power, even today.
27 June 2022
Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.
20 June 2022
Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world
13 June 2022
Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about?
16 May 2022
France abolished slavery in 1815 but the practice continued long after that in its west African enclaves
2 May 2022
On the slopes of the Palatine Hill, supposedly on the site where the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, a new food museum.
25 April 2022
A paper in Nature Food today reports the results of a group of scientists in Finland who modelled the environmental impact of replacing animal-source foods in current European diets with novel or plant-based foods. They conclude: Replacing animal-source foods in current diets with novel foods reduced all enviornmental impacts by over 80% and still met […]