My visit to Ostia Antica last year, guided by the wonderfully knowledgeable Farrell Monaco, was destined to end in more than a podcast. There was no way I was going to be able to avoid attempting a panis quadratus of my own, and what better time to make the effort …
Someone decided it would be a good idea to defraud customers by diluting ground cumin with peanut shells
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 …
You may be wondering, if you care about these things as I do, why there is a chilli species called Capsicum chinense.
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