Is histamine intolerance a thing?
Marieke Hendriksen, in our recent conversation, told me how her... Read more →
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8 September 2025
“You yourself like caribou meat, and what are these maggots but live caribou meat? They taste just the same as the meat and are refreshing to the mouth.”
19 February 2024
In many respects the diets of farmers and hunter-gatherers were more alike than different
The first farmers and their crops moved much further, much earlier, than previously thought. As they did so they grew the confidence, the resources and the knowledge to move up into the mountains and down into the river basins.
14 August 2017
John Speth on how food we may consider disgusting is essential for survival in the Arctic, with added disgusting goodness from Paul Rozin.
From a wilderness survival trick to a new theory on Neanderthal cooking.