Is histamine intolerance a thing?
Marieke Hendriksen, in our recent conversation, told me how her... Read more →
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There have been all sorts of explanations for why tomatoes took so long to be accepted in England, most of them calling on superstition and stupidity. The truth is more down to earth.
4 May 2026
Abderrahim Ouarghidi was born and raised in Morocco, but until the day he and his wife Bronwen Powell found them during fieldwork, he had never seen collard greens there.
Today, a bigger problem than fraud is transportation and storage.
4 November 2025
Anti-communists sent food and medical assistance. Communist sympathisers sent tractors. And both countries had much to learn from the other.
In the end we can never know what people in the past tasted in their food, but a new method aims to come closer.