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Yoghurt is good for you, no doubt about that, although it probably will not confer eternal life.

Dear Supporter, Hello, and welcome. I’m so glad you found your way here. As I mentioned in my email, this post isn’t exactly private, more hidden by obscurity. My hope is that it is a way to give you something without needing you to sign up or log in or whatever. The Mishka Henner image […]

This will be a test post to see whether I can in fact restrict access by obscurity more than anything else. I had to jump through a load of hoops to get here, but it was worth it.

As an artist, looking down on Google Earth, Mishka Henner saw things that made him wonder — and that have the power to make all of us think, a bit.

Farrell Monaco has studied, and brought back to life, the canonical bread of Ancient Rome. Now she brings an ancient bakery back to life.

It may not contain wily aristocrats or superstitious peasants, but the true history of the potato is much more interesting.

Rachel Roddy had no intention of producing an encyclopaedia of pasta. Her book is more informative than that, and more readable.

A dish that is today an icon of Indian food dates back only to 1947, using an ingredient that became widespread only in the 1920s

The story of perhaps the greatest transformation in the history of food and how it continues today

“The cups might break, but the images recycle endlessly.”