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How the Brits became a nation of tea drinkers Coffee leaf rust in Ceylon had very little to do with it
30 November 2020

Persuading people to drink tea from the subcontinent more or less created the modern propaganda machine

A Chinese chilli mystery
17 September 2020

You may be wondering, if you care about these things as I do, why there is a chilli species called Capsicum chinense.

Radish redux One man's search for a mythic vegetable variety
23 September 2019

“All the intrigue of a murder mystery and all the painstaking, arduous pursuit of an archeological dig.” For a radish.

Barges and bread A new book looks at London and the grain trade
5 March 2018

Even before the Romans, grain arrived in what was to become London by water, and it continues to do so today, although the mechanics of the trade have changed beyond recognition. One of the last people to move grain by water upstream from London shares her experience and the history of moving grain by water.

Rethinking the folk history of American agriculture Earl Butz is not the central villain of the piece
6 November 2017

Many of the things you might believe about the history of agriculture in America just aren’t true.

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