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24 Aug 2017

Patrick Bateson (1938–2017)

Bugger. I've been dreading this news. I owe PPGB more than I ever said, more than I ever could say. Truly, the end of an era.

11 Aug 2017

Climate change, crop failure, and suicides in India

Last week, I published a paper in PNAS addressing a topic that has captured the attention of media and policymakers around the world for many years – the rising suicide rate in India. ... I focus on the role of climate in this tragic phenomenon. I find that temperatures during India’s main growing...

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11 Aug 2017

How much should food cost?

[I]t would be very good to work out how much of what most of us spend on food is simply siphoned off to pay bankers, as interest on the debts of all the people along the food chain.

Colin Tudge in fine fettle.

06 Oct 2016

A new bread

Over on Instagram I became fascinated by the bread videos of Trevor Jay Wilson, marvelling at how gentle he is with his dough and how wonderfully that dough performs for him.

Thus inspired, I tried a new approach, using an overnight autolyse. And it mostly worked.

The point is, why bother wr...

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08 Sep 2016

Can you patent a wart?

How did Siegers come to invent the warty pumpkin that everyone else seems to have known about forever? The “inventor” (who was a director of marketing at Siegers) was both very observant and very inexperienced.

Me, over at the other place,

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2 hrs agoThe Mayan maize god. A new scientific version of maize origins has just been published in Science, and one of the lead researchers talked to me for the latest episode of Eat This Podcast. https://eatthispodcast.com/maize
22 hrs agoChecked into 404 Caffe
1 day agoTerrific 50km bike ride with the Rome chapter of FIAB. Absolutely glorious day
1 day agoChecked into Via Maiella
3 days agoBuilding community out of strangers – Tracy Durnell
6 days agoChecked into The Drunken Ship
1 wk agoToday's Eat This Newsletter has a couple ...
1 wk agoThese 40 questions -- in my case ...
1 wk agoCurrently reading: Billy Phelan's Greatest Game by ...

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