Is histamine intolerance a thing?
Marieke Hendriksen, in our recent conversation, told me how her... Read more →
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4 November 2025
Anti-communists sent food and medical assistance. Communist sympathisers sent tractors. And both countries had much to learn from the other.
In the end we can never know what people in the past tasted in their food, but a new method aims to come closer.
“There was no treatment for pellagra, aside from an improved diet, and … we can’t improve the peasants’ diet. That’s not our job. We’re doctors.”
3 March 2025
“The more that the pig comes to signify Jewish identity, the more it comes to signify Christian identity, and vice versa.”
13 May 2024
Throughout history, people repurposed food leftovers and surplus and animal byproducts, challenging the modern perception of them as waste.