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The price of subsidised bread in Egypt has not changed in decades, though the bread shrunk. That remains a huge challenge to security, for the government and the people.

One tin of tuna may contain 10 times more mercury than another, and there’s no way to tell them apart.

How farmers in Belgium and the south of France are taking advantage of new a EU regulation to become more sustainable

Mussolini made the trains run on time, but that doesn’t work for hungry infants

Speculators can actually drive prices higher, which was news to me

“The corollary to white innocence is white passivity, the feeling that what one’s ancestors did was so messed up that it couldn’t possibly make a difference where one eats a barbecue sandwich.”

Asking for a doctor’s note when your guest says they are allergic or intolerant is not an option

There’s a huge difference between neophobia and picky eating, just as there is between food and nutrition. How best to undertake the tricky business of helping children to eat well.

Organic growers and breeders in Europe are preparing to take advantage of their new freedom to sow biodiversity

People (well, a person, but still) asked about the incidental music in my recent episode on Mothers and Milk. It is my interpretation of one of the Child ballads, No. 40, The Queen of Elfan’s Nourice. How we got there is a bit of a roundabout story.