Eat This Newsletter 281, where food is so much more than just something to eat.
* How do we change the way we eat?
* Fungi to biofortify wheat
* In Kashmir, bread and lotus flowers
* Senegal's madd for local development
* Metal mouth and blanched basil
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-281-food-plus/
Brad DeLong boosted this, and I am very glad he did, because it deserves a very wide hearing. (And understanding? Or would that be too much to ask?)
https://chadorzel.substack.com/p/dohble-blind-trials-are-a-sign-of?utm_source=cross-post&publica...
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Eat This Newsletter 280: colonial cultural history of two very different items, a gift to UPF regulation, English farmers' shattered dreams, and too much disturbing food safety news.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-280-gordian/
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What do absinthe and upland rice have in common?
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From Glastonbury to Gaza: no direction home | Chris Smaje
So. Much. This. (Well, the whole piece, obviously.)
[W]e live in a world of increasingly militarised walls and borders. It’s easy for those of us who live on the lucky side of those borders, with our fig and plum trees and our rights to life and liberty, to imagine that we’ll always be the lucky ones. I don’t make that assumption. As the meta-crisis unfolds, there’s no telling where the life zones and where the death zones will be, long-term.