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Talking about anything around food
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4 days ago
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New month, new episode, a chat with Berliner Luisa Weiss
@luisaweiss.bsky.social
about how she became a food blogger, how that changed her life, and how the Berlin food scene is changing.
eatthispodcast.com/berlin
#podcast
#food
#Berlin
8 days ago
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If this is the kind of thing you enjoy, Enjoy!
www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...
#food
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Wading through the crimson bogs, Massachusetts cranberry growers keep a tradition alive.
After decades of decline, the cranberry is still Massachusetts' leading agricultural product. Here's how the festive berry became a holiday tradition.
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Food/2025/1122/cranberries-thanksgiving-indigenous-pilgrims-massachusetts-tradition?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
12 days ago
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ETN 288: Adverse Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food
#nutrition
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Eat This Newsletter 288: Adverse
Hello If a study of foods and health suggests “adverse outcomes across nearly all organ systems” I’d want to minimise those foods. On the other hand, banning...
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-288-adverse/
14 days ago
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It’s too nice an afternoon to spend indoors finishing up tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, but someone has to examine a case in which US food safety regulation is more stringent than the EU’s. Sign up at
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#newsletter
#FoodSafety
16 days ago
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19 days ago
Second big meat company forced to roll back 'net zero' claims
www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/tyso...
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Tyson agrees to settlement over climate-smart beef claims
Tyson Foods will stop asserting it is pursuing production of “climate-smart” beef and working to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions as part of a legal settlement of a lawsuit that challenged the ...
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/tyson-agrees-to-settlement-over-climate-smart-beef-claims/
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20 days ago
Großartiges Eintauchen in eine Mini-Nische der Forschung: Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
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A Fresh Look at Domestication According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
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#archaeology
22 days ago
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More, from Marion Nestle, on the ByHeart baby botulism problem.
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
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26 days ago
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Jess Fanzo
30 days ago
Want to stay up to date on food & nutrition science, politics and culture? Check out The Food Archive and subscribe on the upper right side of the home page:
www.thenutritionarchive.com
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New episode: Revolutions are Born in Breadlines. Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
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about 1 month ago
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Pitchforks! Now!
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Results important because lots of attention is going into this issue (1700 studies!), and this overview strongly suggests there's no strong data on whether food-packaging microplastics are important, and we shld devote attention and effort to issues we know are important (e.g., nitrogen pollution).
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Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
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#food
#newsletter
#nutrition
about 1 month ago
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Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop. This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
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about 1 month ago
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”We’re talking about 1 in 8 American households and something like 12 percent of all grocery sales in the U.S. ... It’s like watching the worst game of chicken ever, and it’s not clear Democrats or Republicans really realize just how much is at stake.” Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
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about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
Nibbles: Millennium
#Seed
Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana
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– Agricultural
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Nibbles: Millennium Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana genebank
King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank and... ...Cate Blanchett. Or read about it in The Economist. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm Syste...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibbles-millennium-seed-bank-25th-npgs-maize-germplasm-breadfruit-genebank-banana-genebank/
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In 2008, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. One thing led to another and today you can find something similar not only across Ireland but around the world, as I learned from
@gastroirl.bsky.social
eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag
#food
#Ireland
about 2 months ago
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Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
about 2 months ago
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Agrobiodiverse
about 2 months ago
Brainfood: Data edition... Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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Brainfood: Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Consistent global dataset on biodiversity intactness footprint of agricultural production from 2000 to 2020. Spatial dataset shows how global consumption drives ecological degradation. Rapid monitorin...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brainfood-biodiversity-intactness-landuse-change-drought-stress-crop-suitability-yield-variance-phenotypic-data/
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Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy Life's little certainties: birth, death, and school lunch money.
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Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy
Hello The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt...
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-285-antsy/
about 2 months ago
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Dept. of Good to Have it Confirmed "There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on."
www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-o...
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The Myth of the Sommelier
Is there an art to wine tasting? Do the best tasters really know best?
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-of-the-sommelier?ref=thebrowser.com
about 2 months ago
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I might be inviting trouble here, but something my guest said on the latest episode of the podcast led me to do some digging, and that led me to write Is Histamine Intolerance a Thing?
www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/is-hist...
#histamine
#fermentation
about 2 months ago
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Amen.
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history
Dr Fiona Hay, seed scientist, on why we need genebanks. Prof. Richard Ellis retires. A genebank legend, as Fiona would probably agree. FAO exhibition goes From Seeds to Foods. By way of genebanks, no ...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibbles-fiona-hay-richard-ellis-fao-exhibition-peasants-wheat-breeding-svalbard-soren-ejlersen-ephraim-bull-heirloom-apples-caffeine-collards-history/
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Revisiting Historical Recipes Even if you manage to make an old recipe, you’re left with an insoluble mystery: how should it taste? If you’re in search of some notion of authenticity, that is the ultimate stumbling block. There is just no way to know. Or is there?
eatthispodcast.com/past-taste
2 months ago
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast
2 months ago
Good morning! If you listen to podcasts, enjoy food traditions, have a listen to my latest episode about Ukrainian food, history, tradition, family & land! It's an interview with the super-talented
@oliahercules.bsky.social
who I wanted to speak to for years!
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Ukrainian Food Culture - With Olia Hercules
Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 30/09/2025 · 1h 8m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-delicious-legacy/id1494707127?i=1000729414758
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Jess Fanzo
2 months ago
The American Public Health Association is hosting a webinar, "The Changing Climate and Our Food & Nutrition System." Join me and Kris Ebi this Thursday at 3 pm EST. Register here:
apha.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ISC-SC Climate and Health Webinar: The Changing Climate and Our Food & Nutrition System. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about join...
This webinar will discuss the bi-directional nature of climate change and sustainable food systems. Please join us for this online seminar on the critical challenge of food security in the world of cl...
https://apha.zoom.us/meeting/register/6WYXaH0vT9mfY9VET2m1tg#/registration
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And very good it is too.
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2 months ago
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Eat This Newsletter 284: Marketing Food bank economics, Pasta Grannies behaving badly, while olives, a eulogy for “foodie”, tariffs on “English” tea, and some food-flavoured Ig Nobel prizes.
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Eat This Newsletter 284: Marketing
Hello Economics may not be perfect, or even close to it, but there are some problems that it solves much more effectively than well-meaning people. Market...
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-284-marketing/
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Good to know!
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2 months ago
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3 months ago
Terrific
@scientificdiscovery.dev
post on randomized controlled trials in
@ourworldindata.org
. Including this important chart on the impact of pre-registration. Magically, when people had to pre-register outcomes, many of the benefits disappeared.
ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...
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Agrobiodiverse
3 months ago
Good news from the
#genebank
world? Say it ain't so. Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/gene...
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Good news from the genebank world?
As you may have noticed, I've been on a mission lately to document in Brainfood the progress that genebanks are making. Because I needed some good vibes, you know? So last week there was one on how th...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/genebanks-making-progress/
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An amazing site (linked by Andy Baio) that tracks parking officers in San Francisco in real time. Two questions. Will the city shut it down? No. Are the cops tracking the leaderboard? Officer 0440 needs to shape up, clearly.
walzr.com/sf-parking/a...
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Find My Parking Cops
Map of San Francisco parking cops and their recent tickets
https://walzr.com/sf-parking/about/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nibbles: Ancient Mexican seedbank, Indian millets, Foraged foods, Soybean breeding, Apple breeding, Albanian heirlooms, Bangladesh fish genebank – Agricultural
#Biodiversity
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agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibb...
#genebanks
#conservation
#agrobiodiversity
#seedsaving
#seedbank
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Nibbles: Ancient Mexican seedbank, Indian millets, Foraged foods, Soybean breeding, Apple breeding, Albanian heirlooms, Bangladesh fish genebank
People in the Nejapan Sierra Sur in Oaxaca, Mexico had a seed bank 400-700 years ago so they could re-create their complex cuisine after disruptions. How MSSRF revived millets in Odisha, India. You th...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibbles-ancient-mexican-seedbank-indian-millets-foraged-foods-soybean-breeding-apple-breeding-albanian-heirlooms-bangladesh-fish-genebank/
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Eat This Podcast: The Miracle of Salt Talking to Naomi Duguid about her book The Miracle of Salt and we managed to avoid the whole pink salt diet trick nonsense. So should you. Listen at
eatthispodcast.com/salt
#food
#podcast
#salt
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Brainfood: Tech helping
#genebanks
with... Taxonomic identification, Niche mapping, Drones, Phenomics, Yield analysis... Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai...
#conservation
#technology
#biodiversity
#agrobiodiversity
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Brainfood: Taxonomic identification, Niche mapping, Drones, Phenomics, Yield analysis
Review of herbarium plant identification of crop wild relatives using convolutional neural network models. Cool tech helps you figure out which species is which. Now you can map them properly I guess....
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brainfood-taxonomic-identification-niche-mapping-drones-phenomics-yield-analysis/
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3 months ago
Earlier this week I posted a roundup of papers describing recent improvements to the "software" of
#genebanks
agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai...
. Next Monday, it's the turn of genebank "hardware." Keep up to date:
agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/how-...
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Brainfood: Genebank metrics, Genebank reviews, Botanic gardens ABS, Genebank practical guides, Germplasm User Groups
A Proposal for Genebank Metrics to Enhance Collection Management. A framework of 10 mandatory and 38 optional metrics for orthodox-seed genebank collections (covering size, documentation, conservation...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brainfood-genebank-metrics-genebank-reviews-botanic-gardens-abs-genebank-practical-guides-germplasm-user-groups/
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Eat This Newsletter 283 * “What They Ate Was Disgusting, Filthy, and Backward” * “A Cabal of Dark Forces” * “An Increasingly Landless Agricultural System” * “Bad News for Farmers” * “Health Honeys” Read it for free at
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Eat This Newsletter 283: Odious
Hello I am reliably informed I showed no aversion to stinky cheeses as an infant. Apologies in advance if you find any of this issue’s items revolting,...
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-283-odious
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nibbles: Supermarkets, Cate Blanchett, ABS, Transformation, Medieval haymaking, Aurochs re-wilding, Breed concept (with follow-up here
agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/a-br...
) Agricultural
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agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibb...
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Nibbles: Supermarkets, Cate Blanchett, ABS, Transformation, Medieval haymaking, Aurochs rewilding, Breed concept
What's wrong with supermarkets. Cate Blanchett on the Millennium Seed Bank. Attitude to supermarkets unknown. Access & Benefit Sharing 101. Cate Blanchett unavailable for comment. Experts weigh in on ...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibbles-supermarkets-cate-blanchett-abs-transformation-medieval-haymaking-aurochs-rewilding-breed-concept/
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SciFood Blog
3 months ago
Given that the Nova system is for classifying the production of food not it's nutritional value is anyone surprised it is a poor classification system to use in nutritional studies?
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Are all ultra-processed foods bad? A critical review of the NOVA classification system | Proceedings of the Nutrition Society | Cambridge Core
Are all ultra-processed foods bad? A critical review of the NOVA classification system
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-nutrition-society/article/are-all-ultraprocessed-foods-bad-a-critical-review-of-the-nova-classification-system/16D07B81A1587340B3EE847F3C662E60
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Kicking off a new series talking to John Speth about that Neanderthal fat factory and a better explanation for why, when you look at nitrogen isotope ratios, Neanderthals seem to be even more carnivorous than lions and tigers.
www.eatthispodcast.com/maggots/
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Plant Genetic Resources is planning a special edition: Unlocking the Potential of National Genebanks - Tools, Strategies and Impact Metrics for sustainable Global Conservation. Katherine Baum of the Australian Grains Genebank is the Guest Editor, deadline 31 October 2025. Sounds like fun!
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Open Sesame!
The journal Plant Genetic Resources is planning a special edition on Unlocking the Potential of National Genebanks: Tools, Strategies and Impact Metrics for sustainable Global Conservation. Katherine ...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/open-sesame-2/
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Just uploaded a new episode to Patreon and grateful to all my subscribers there. But ... discovered I can sell an individual episode for $3.00 which becomes $4.50 from an iPhone. My tip: listen for free tomorrow and subscribe directly.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Cate Blanchett on...
#genebanks
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www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/cate...
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Cate Blanchett on the vital work of the wild botanical garden at Wakehurst and its Millennium Seed Bank
On her first visit to the West Sussex botanical garden Wakehurst five years ago, Australian Cate Blanchett had an unexpected moment of homesickness that led to her learning more about the global conne...
https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/cate-blanchett-kew-wakehurst-ambassador
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"Frozen potato products—most of which are french fries—now account for an average of about 50 percent of potato per capita availability at 58 pounds per person after decades of steady increases." No surprise, but good to have the data.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Readers with a long memory will remember that I promised I would keep an eye on the manifesto that was supposed to come out of the 3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress... Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/the-...
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The Kunming Manifesto surfaces
Readers with a long memory will remember that I promised I would keep an eye on the manifesto that was supposed to come out of the 3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress, held back in May. Well, ...
https://agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/the-kunming-manifesto-surfaces/
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Nice to be back at home after extended absences, but so much catching up to do. That's why I haven't promoted the latest Eat This Newsletter until now, but here it is for your entertainment.
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Eat This Newsletter 282: Myths Busted
Hello The Black Death, the Shetland Black, the smoking wok, the misleading image, the pomegranate; all slightly mythical, all somewhat busted. Oppressing the...
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn282-myths-busted/
3 months ago
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If you’re puzzled by recent claims about “authentic” Parmigiano-Reggiano you might want to listen to Zachary Nowak explain how the rules effectively trapped the cheese in aspic.
www.eatthispodcast.com/what-makes-p...
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3 months ago
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