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India gained independence in 1947 with nationalist politicians promising food for all and an end to the rapacious imperial administration. What happened next?

Diet for a Large Planet shows how the world is still living with free trade policies from the 19th century

Jess Fanzo takes a close look at what’s wrong with global food systems and how it might be possible to change them.

Someone decided it would be a good idea to defraud customers by diluting ground cumin with peanut shells

Green Saffron is a new kind of spice merchant, that cares as much about how its spices are grown as their taste.

Coffee that tastes of light black tea — a good thing — and is able to cope with warmer climates.

In the most recent episode, Colin Tudge said: “In America … there are many, many times more people in jail than there are working full time on the land. Can that really be true? The US prison population is relatively easy to find. 1,430,800 at year end 2019, currently the lowest in 24 years, since […]

Skill and craft over automation, complexity over simplicity, and diversity over monoculture

There’s one group of people that functional foods and superfoods can definitely help: the people who grow them.

There may not be a recipe, but there’s always someone sitting behind your shoulder going tsk, tsk, tsk.