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Further proof that antibiotic use on farms harms humans

Reality check with some Thanksgiving leftovers: herring scandal, Native American non-trend, Britain and food history, smash history, celery and dull spices.

A trip to the Sheep’s Head peninsula in West Cork and one of the pioneer cheesemakers there, Jeffa Gill.

Chew on these: Codfather, organics, big chicken, Instagram semiotics and double-entry easy cooking.

Sometimes the internet works in mysterious ways, to bring problems and solutions within days of one another.

Many of the things you might believe about the history of agriculture in America just aren’t true.

Just follow the money. The reason big growers want organic certification is so they can charge more.

I suppose it is inevitable that the things that catch my attention are the things that are on my mind. This issue of the newsletter reflects that to a greater than usual extent. Antibiotics, food systems, apple breeding, kale and some key references.

Apples picked to perfume a room. Undocumented apples and apples with false papers. Foundlings that could give a supermarket apple a run for its money. Others that don’t taste too good but are catnip to blackbirds. A heritage orchard in County Clare, Ireland.

On the links between land reform and prosperity, the origins of a sandwich, the Amish and Whole Foods and more.