Category: Podcasts
Dwarf wheat: On the shoulders of a giant Our Daily Bread 10
Credit where credit’s due: The Father of the Green Revolution had an unacknowledged father himself.
Red Fife Our Daily Bread 09
Today’s Red Fife would not qualify as an official Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat, but that doesn’t matter. People want Red Fife because it is Red Fife, not just any old high-quality Canadian wheat.
Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov Our Daily Bread 08
“In order to improve cultivated plants it is necessary to have the ‘building material’ required … And to use their most valuable qualities for hybridisation.”
Bake like an Egyptian Our Daily Bread 07
In all probability, the original source of Kamut was a market stall or a small farmer in Egypt, where it had survived as an obscure grain grown by peasant farmers.