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Eat This Newsletter 121

6 April 2020 Filed under: Tags:

Seafood, smut and sourdough, and a reminder about Soviet food.

  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.

Eat This Newsletter 120 An opportunity?

23 March 2020 Filed under: Tags:

Fungi, chicken of the woods, silver darlings and more besides. With a Letter from Rome for subscribers.

  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.

Eat This Newsletter 119 Ceci n'est pas une poire

9 March 2020 Filed under: Tags:

Apples and pears, nutmeg and mace, beans and pulses, lifestyles and life.

Eat This Newsletter 118

24 February 2020 Filed under: Tags:

Real mocha, real kitchens, real whiskey, real gardening. Keeping it unreal.

How does your garden grow?

Squandering antibiotic efficacy

19 February 2020 Filed under:

Wait a minute. In 2016 the Environmental Protection Agency in the US authorised citrus farmers emergency permission to spray streptomycin and oxytetracycline on orchards afflicted by huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease. In December 2018, the EPA allowed routine spraying of oxytetracycline. Seriously? Antibiotics valuable in human medicine just sprayed into the environment? Now I want […]

Wait a minute. In 2016 the Environmental Protection Agency in the US authorised citrus farmers emergency permission to spray streptomycin and oxytetracycline on orchards afflicted by huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease. In December 2018, the EPA allowed routine spraying of oxytetracycline.

Seriously? Antibiotics valuable in human medicine just sprayed into the environment?

Now I want to know whether anyone has actually sampled for antibiotic resistance in areas that saw the most spraying. Except that farmers no longer have to report whether they have sprayed.