An experiment in sound and taste The music I heard really did affect the flavours I tasted
Irish music and its influence on the taste of Irish beer
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Aquae Urbis Romae Clean, endless, free water has been a right for more than 2000 years
Following the ancient aqueducts to trace the history of the waters of Rome
How to measure what farms produce Going beyond yield and calories to the true value of production
How should we measure what farms produce? The answer drives some pretty important trends. For the past 60 years and more, the key metric has been yield – tonnes per hectare or equivalent. And it has resulted in extraordinary improvements in productivity, at least as measured by yield, and at …
The Dark Ages were a time of prosperity Latest evidence points to productive and sustainable agriculture
The Dark Ages ran for about 400 years, from around the fall of the Roman Empire, in the middle of the 6th century, to around the 10th or 11th centuries. It was dark because the light of Rome had been extinguished, while that of the Renaissance had not yet burst …
Going further than food miles Tim Lang, father of food miles, talks about food systems
“Forget organic. Eat local.” Nice, simple advice, from the cover of Time magazine. But more or less pointless. There’s so much more to food systems than just the distance the food travels. Tim Lang coined the phrase food miles. We talked about the complexities of the food system.