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A quinoa dilemma
12 June 2025

Quinoa is not a staple at our house. I like it a lot, but I don’t make it that often. If I did, I would probably already have negotiated a way through the ethical maze that confronts me. Should I buy quinoa from its homeland in South America, and if so should it be the […]

Quinoa in the Po Valley Serendipity at work during play
9 June 2025

I didn’t realise, when I booked a brief holiday in the Po Delta, that I would be staying at the heart of the Italian quinoa supply chain

Quinoa’s rise and fall What goes up will come down
17 March 2025

A new book looks beyond the hype to chronicle the effect of an unsustainable boom on the entire quinoa trade in Peru

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