1. Other diseases still matter. Olive “leprosy” remains serious. The science.
2. The Counter dug deep into the mysterious flour shortage.
3. Chickens and hares like unto gods, says The Guardian, and long before Easter.
4. How Maxwell House Coffee appropriated Passover.
5. In 2006, it seems I had a premonition about empty tomb cookies, recently brought to light.

1. Neanderthals enjoyed seafood. Well, why wouldn’t they?
2. The right kind of smut is so good. Clickbait, right?
3. Keep your sourdough small, with The Perfect Loaf’s guide.
4. ICYMI, six years ago I talked to Mary Neuberger about a conference on Culture and Cuisine in Russia & Eastern Europe.
5. Several of those conference papers are in a special issue of Gastronomica, the journal for food studies.

1. Extraordinary Fungal Masks used by the Indigenous People of North America and Asia
2. The Italian Farmer Returning Chickens to the Wild. I don’t envy him collecting about 1000 eggs a day from the woods.
3. How herring in the North Sea could sour the Brexit trade negotiations.
4. If you don’t know it, and even if you do, listen to Singing the Fishing, in my opinion the best of the marvellous BBC Radio Ballads.
5. Covid–19 and the future of food from Chris Smaje of Small Farm Future. Long-term hopeful.
6. “The Gastronomica Editorial Collective is seeking dispatches about food in the time of COVID–19.”
7. Here’s mine … Life here in lockdown land honestly hasn’t been that bad. I’ve written a bit about it here and here.

• Isabella dalla Ragione, seeker after old varieties of fruit and corrective of art historians
• Nutmeg is not black gold. It’s Pantone160c gold.
• Cool Beans are having their moment, and not just on “meatless Mondays”.
• Because “Meatless Mondays” are not enough.

• From khat to coffee: revitalising an age-old Yemeni crop, and not for the first time. Or the last.
• As explained in the full ETN 118
• Never mind about food fraud, online-only kitchens threaten food safety too.
• Sweet and fruity, or cardboardy and bready and leathery? We’re talking whiskey and maize varieties.
• Pioneer no-knead baker reveals the secrets of no-gardening harvest.

How does your garden grow?