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“There was no treatment for pellagra, aside from an improved diet, and … we can’t improve the peasants’ diet. That’s not our job. We’re doctors.”

I didn’t realise, when I booked a brief holiday in the Po Delta, that I would be staying at the heart of the Italian quinoa supply chain

Quinoa is not a staple at our house. I like it a lot, but I don’t make it that often. If I did, I would probably already have negotiated a way through the ethical maze that confronts me. Should I buy quinoa from its homeland in South America, and if so should it be the […]

Tara Schmidt, lead dietitian for the Mayo Clinic Diet, shares her thoughts on diet, diets and dietary advice

In the past few decades Puglia has improved its food, wine and olive oil almost beyond recognition

For much of the world, food has never been as abundant or as inexpensive as it is now, but at what cost?

This time of year, approximately speaking, is ripe for investigating food and cultures, as in the episode Celebrating Passover and Easter. With Passover just behind and Easter just ahead, I’m happy to resurrect some more ancient posts.

Size and market concentration lock farmers onto a technological treadmill that does nobody any good, excpet for the giant corporations and their shareholders

A new book looks beyond the hype to chronicle the effect of an unsustainable boom on the entire quinoa trade in Peru

“The more that the pig comes to signify Jewish identity, the more it comes to signify Christian identity, and vice versa.”