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Eat This Newsletter 007 Gleanings

 

13 July 2015

Help yourself. There’s plenty more inside.

  1. Here’s something bizarre: a chef celebrated for his cooking.
  2. How India’s leadership promotes malnutrition and stunting. I wonder whether this new nutrition thing has a solution.
  3. Extra helpings of food price data, stunningly visualized
  4. You know David Simon, the man who wrote The Wire. But do you know what he remembers about food and his family?
  5. This one’s been around, and not surprisingly. The fabled flatbreads of Uzbekistan
  6. Bonus shameless self-promotion. They’ve found citrus greening disease in California. For a glimpse at what looking for plant pests entails, listen to this episode of Eat This Podcast.

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