• To mark Sourdough September here’s The Biology of … Sourdough, a little something Bread Magazine dredged up from 2003, when the world of artisanal bread was new and fresh.
• What Would It Take to Feed the Entire Human Population with Nothing but Mycoprotein?.
• Tom Nealon has a great piece constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing the Sloppy Joe.
• The recent Daily Chart from The Economist perplexed me.
• Xylella update:
  • On Thursday, the European Court of Justice may decide on the amount of Italy’s bill.
  • A gushing press release announced “a hope for the future with the first oil from olives infected with Xylella”.
  • An editorial rebuttal followed rapidly.
  • (Translations at 2019 Olive Harvest in Puglia Begins for First Crop of Xylella-Resistant Cultivars and Correction to the Preceding.)

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