A diet for the future But not my future A paper in Nature Food today reports the results of a group of scientists in Finland who modelled the environmental impact of replacing animal-source foods in current European diets with novel or plant-based foods.
A real Roman bread for Fornacalia My visit to Ostia Antica last year, guided by the wonderfully knowledgeable Farrell Monaco, was destined to end in more than a podcast. Continue Reading →
Digging into contaminated cumin Someone decided it would be a good idea to defraud customers by diluting ground cumin with peanut shells Continue Reading →
Prisoners and farmers: it’s close In the most recent episode, Colin Tudge said: “In America … there are many, many times more people in jail than there are working full time on the land. Continue Reading →
A Chinese chilli mystery You may be wondering, if you care about these things as I do, why there is a chilli species called Capsicum chinense. Continue Reading →