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Malta Besieged & Black-market Intrigues A blind eye on crime
1 April 2024

Ordinarily, evading food rationing in times of war is considered a crime. There are times when it must be accepted as a necessity.

Food Security in Egypt “Twenty loaves of bread for the cost of a cigarette”
6 February 2023

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.

A visit to an ancient Roman bakery Behind the scenes at the Mulino di Silvano in Ostia Antica
6 December 2021

Farrell Monaco has studied, and brought back to life, the canonical bread of Ancient Rome. Now she brings an ancient bakery back to life.

Kernza crop failure could speed success
12 April 2019

If you hurry you can buy a box of cereal and support research into perennial crops

A historian of bread on the history of bread "There is no good, no bad, only bread"
1 April 2019

William Rubel doesn’t think there is good bread or bad bread, but he knows what he likes.

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