Latest newsletter looks at various ways consolidation in farming and food ends up having bad consequences, and they're not even unforeseen, they're the point. Also, why we won't eat the bugs; it's not in our DNA. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #agriculture

Brainfood: Collaboration edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/brai... #agrobiodiversity #conservation #genebanks #sustainabledevelopment #biodiversity #nutrition

Nibbles: Apple-banana paradox, #Genebanks, Indian wheat, Indian wild rice, Kenya community #seed banks, Wild coffee, Macadamia history, Taro research, Cacti – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/nibb... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #plantbreeding

Brainfood: Wild chickpea, Feral brassica, Peruvian cacao, Panamanian cacao, Tree diversity, Healthy diets in PNG – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/brai... #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #conservation #wildrelatives

Eat This Newsletter: Wakelyns needs supporters to become a fitting remembrance for Martin Wolfe, a great pioneer of agricultural biodiversity. Plus "wasted" calories, ultra-processed foods, and cyclosporiasis so far. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food #agriculture

I'm looking for women who have lost weight on GLP-1s. I'm interested in how it's affecting you emotionally. Are you relieved to find something that works? Grumpy from side-effects? More confident in a thin-oriented society? Elated? Disappointed? DMs are open. I won't use names. RTs appreciated.

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Latest Eat this Newsletter offers insights into a cool museum, restrictive plant varieties, and better breeding that is not restrictive. Get it at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... and consider subscribing while you're there. #newsletter #food

Brainfood: Easter Island coffee, Sword bean, Sweetpotato names, Colombian potatoes, Nut grass, Market access, Pollinators, Seed microorganisms – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/brai... #conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

This is important. Yes, local chickens could do with some improvement. No, that does not require importing pure-line hybrids and the technology to enable them to survive. Wish I could be there.

Playing around with wild potatoes – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/play... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #cropwildrelatives #genebanks

Check out the latest Food Bytes from The Food Archive. What's up this month? El Niño, UPFs, displacement, Rebecca Solnit, Rothko!, Violent Femmes! & some of the best of what I have been reading lately in books, reports, & peer-reviewed literature across food, nutrition, & climate. shorturl.at/k0gkz

Just finished tomorrow's Eat This Newsletter: ube, menus, brambles, slop, not slop and not good either, and beef. Just in case my brain is scrambled and I forget to announce it here, make sure you get it by signing up at buttondown.email/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletter

Nibbles: Cayman coconuts, Wild beans, Breeding Bambara, Aussie genebank, Amazonian ag – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/nibb... #conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

There is a strand of thought out there that believes any and all legislation to do with seeds is evil and unnecesary. It is wrong. Here’s why. jeremycherfas.net/blog/why-we-...

A colleague once asked me why my copy had a couple of TKs in it. I told her that it stood for to come, and that it would be flagged up by spell checkers because the combination TK did not appear in any words. OK, catkin, she replied.

Among the gems Jeremy has included in his latest Eat This Newsletter are an essay on the potato in Belarus and a visual guide to the peppers of the world. Very tasty. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...

It shocked me when I saw an ad this morning, then I noted a friend had liked it. Then I saw another that nobody I know had liked. This really is the beginning of the end for me.

The first tomato plants in England were noted around 1590, but there aren’t many recipes until the 1720s. Why did it take so long? Stories you may have heard are probably wrong. @serinquinn.bsky.social explains what really caused the delay. eatthispodcast.com/tomato-engla... #podcast #tomato

Re Orphan crops "Middle-class consumers may not know how to prepare them. Urban markets may not value them. Food processors may not see commercial opportunities ... The most effective intervention may not be a breeding programme but a chef, an entrepreneur, a recipe book or a social media campaign."

It was such a great conversation. Thanks again.

Hunger is a policy choice

They can't all be Nazi Bars, surely.

Himalayan maize landraces are a treasure trove of climate-ready diversity, but understanding where they’re grown and conserving them before they disappear is just as important as studying their genes. agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/stai... agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/maiz... agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/hima...

Fruit and Veg prices soaring in the US...Rising energy costs due to the war on Iran are having a big impact on food prices - not just production costs, but transportation, cold chain, retail, etc. www.ft.com/content/f27a...

Fast food chains are taking the Impossible and Beyond burgers off menus, and focusing on vegetable-based beef alternatives. www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/food/burger-...

There’s a whiff of nostalgia around Eat This Newsletter 304 Small tractors, small farms, small grain, small fibs, and small customs that meant a great deal. Read it at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... While you are there, please consider subscribing. #food #newsletters #agriculture

Brainfood: Diversity of Oats, Cotton, Sugarcane, Rice, Amaranthus, Vegetables, Agroforestry, Value chains, – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/brai... #genebanks #conservation #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity

Nibbles: Johnny Appleseed, ICRAF genebanks, China lychee genebank, Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, Saudi tree genebanks, European genebank data, Pricing nature – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/nibb... #genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

Stairway to maize diversity – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/stai... #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #conservation #plantbreeding

More Sustainable School Meals Researchers in Sweden optimised school lunches to reduce GHG emissions while staying essentially the same. Negative result very positive; no changes in amount eaten, amount wasted and meal satisfaction. eatthispodcast.com/schoolfood #podcasts #food #nutrition

So picky!

Eat This Newsletter 303. Too much to summarise in such a confined space, but I believe it will satisfy your need for food-related goodies encountered online. Try it at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletters

Brainfood: Indigenous edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/brai... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #genebanks #Indigenouspeople

Latest episode looks at the hipster baristas and Chinese espresso, both of which show that even traditions that define an identity are not as immutable as people sometimes think they are. eatthispodcast.com/espresso/ #podcasts #food #coffee

Humble crop beats superfood – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/humb... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #development #quinoa #potato

Brainfood: Spatial data edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/brai... #conservation #agrobiodivesity #spatialdata #GIS

That distribution really is massively skewed.

Brassica on the brink: Collards in the Sahara? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/bras... #conservation #ethnobotany #economicbotany #agrobiodiversity

Collard greens are strongly linked to Black foodways in the US South. They are also valued in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara, although the outside world has only just found out about that. That raises so many questions. eatthispodcast.com/collards #food #agriculture #podcasts #Morocco

Terrific news on peanut domestication.

Great news, that rare alleles can rapidly increase in frequency when they confer an advantage in a different environment. I'd love to see sequencing data from the many populations of Ceccarelli's composite crosses now growing across Italy (and elsewhere).

Let's hear it for the guava!

tsp to smbc: Culinary Vernacular and the Evolution of Language in Personal Recipes recipes.hypotheses.org/27696 Pity many of the images, which the captions suggest might be interesting, are not visible on the page, for me.

A Mycelial Thread Through Human History – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/04/a-my... #archaeology #fungi #agrobiodiversity

I particularly love this insight from Amiel at @gourmetlives.bsky.social about how food media has spent so much time trying to capture people who are not actually very interested in food

Genebanks can drive the diversification agenda – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/04/gene... #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #conservation #seeds #diets #sustainability

Eat This Newsletter 300. Blowing my own trumpet, and also morel cultivation, “Achieving Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Diets,” a real man making quiche, and part of the whole truth about whole grains. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletters

One of the most unfortunate aspects of the modern food system is that we have gotten so efficient at crop production that markets and policies have been created to divert crop production to massively inefficient ends (calories lost feeding animals or burned as fuel).

New Episode: In Search of the Real Cheeses After 10 years as a commercial cheesemaker, Trevor Warmedahl set off to learn about “other, older ways to go about the fermentation of milk and the care of dairy livestock and the making of cheese”. eatthispodcast.com/cheese-trek #podcast #cheese