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On rural people and agricultural work; on bagged salads and “healthy” food; on food photography

Food tourism of various kinds, the Rituals of Dinner and a piece that will take you back to The Jungle. Oh, and Seed Rebels.

My compadre Luigi I have been going back and forth on a recent research paper that delved deep into the breeding history of lemons and limes. It is utterly mind-boggling stuff, which neither of us feels able to understand, let alone summarise in any meaningful way. Luigi shared this picture from the paper: I’ll just […]

Par for the course?

The perfect reason to link back to Carol Deppe talking about potato nutrition.

A roundup suitable for this day of celebration, with artisans, bots of toil and food for raven and vulture alike.

I’m working on a complex story that includes the trade in coffee, so when my chum Luigi linked to resourcetrade.earth, from Chatham House, I rushed on over to see about coffee, not roasted, not decaffeinated. The thing that mainly caught my attention was weird little Belgium. ((Not counting the absurd display of arrows going to […]

A picture is worth way more than 1000 words when it reveals food trends over the past 50 years for more than 150 countries.

Easter, and the consequences of climate change for snack-happy Japanese. Plus broccoli, Canada’s culinary history and grants for the study of food history.

Australians devote almost 60 cents of every dollar they spend on food to unhealthy stuff. They could eat better for less money, but “affordable luxuries” get in the way.