June 2012
70 posts
“It no longer occurs to me to query the use of four-letter words, even when they...”
– Mary Norris on profanity in The New Yorker: http://nyr.kr/OArE2z (via newyorker)
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“Enjoy every sandwich.”
– Warren Zevon (via minimalmac)
Can’t argue with that.
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Farm Radio Weekly » Tanzania: Farmer attributes... →
Elisa Pallangyo is a farmer in the village of Maweni, 30 kilometres outside Arusha, Tanzania. He lives on a small farm but manages to produce a large crop of maize, beans, and vegetables. Mr. Pallangyo attributes his large yields to intercropping his maize with pigeon pea or beans. He is very thankful for his farm’s success, because it has allowed him to put his children through school, he says “I...
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Do Bad Politics Thwart Good Olive Oil?
Interesting article from Nancy Harmon Jenkins, but the real kicker is in the comment. She blames EU policies and subsidies (easy) while he points out some of the realities of the olive harvest in Spain (hard).
Me, I can’t decide.
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“Almost two centuries ago, he says, meat was one reason why immigrants found...”
– The Making Of Meat-Eating America (via planetmoney)
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PLoS Collections: Big Food, Food Systems, and... →
As the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food (www.ploscollections.org/bigfood) kicks off, let’s begin this Essay with a blunt conclusion: Global food systems are not meeting the world’s dietary needs. About one billion people are hungry, while two billion people are overweight.
From David Stuckler and Marion Nestle
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“Could it really be as simple as cutting out the ads and watching the kids slim...”
– Do advertising bans work? New research by Assistant Professor Tirtha Dhar | Sauder School of Business at UBC, Vancouver, Canada
File under “too good to be true”?
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Lunch: An Urban Invention →
Edible Geography is at it again. Wonderful stuff. Unlike my recent lunch.
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Holistic Agriculture Library Index (Public Domain... →
basava:
Great, invaluable, free agriculture-related ebook library.
“If you want a good title, you need it before you start, when you’re pumped up...”
– Frank Cottrell Boyce, from his “How to write a screenplay” (via Coldbrain) (via wnycradiolab)
#9438
ohnewsroom:
Editor, on Saxotech: “You don’t drop acid and then design a content management system.”
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“As a grower, if you’re killing 98 percent of pests with Bt cotton, you...”
– Trouble on the horizon for GM crops?
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25 Famous People You Didn’t Know Were Also Farmers... →
nickcobb:
“Sometimes called the world’s second oldest profession, farming has been the career of choice for countless individuals over the millenia. Among these countless farmers you’ll find heads of state, royalty, actors, and other renowned individuals who made contributions to the history of both farming and mankind.”
I didn’t even know some of them were famous.
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Refined dining →
Fascinating review of three newish books:
The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food, by John S Allen, Harvard University Press, RRP£19.95/RRP$25.95, 266 pages
Taste Matters: Why We Like The Foods We Do, by John Prescott, Reaktion Books, RRP£20/RRP$30, 224 pages
Taste What You’re Missing: The Passionate Eater’s Guide to Why Good Food Tastes Good, by Barb Stuckey, Free Press,...
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“India is home to one-third of the world’s malnourished children. This figure...”
– The agriculture-nutrition disconnect in India | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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The food politics of…broccoli ! →
And don’t just say that because you like broccoli it doesn’t matter whether the government wants to compel you to buy it!
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Brilliant movie-chart on Kiva loans from Core to... →
Fascinating; I still say that this is despite, not because of, Kiva’s web site.
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A short tale of four chefs and their salt cellars... →
Season this!
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India Considers Reform of its Failed Food System →
Amartya Sen asserted 30 years ago that hunger is not due to scarcity, but rather to poverty, inequality, and poor management of resources. (Sen, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation 1981).
That assertion appears to be borne out by Vikas Bajaj’s recent story in the New York Times, “As Grain Piles Up, India’s Poor Still Goes Hungry.” The hunger...
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“Ad-based models continue to erode, and the online subscription programs of many...”
– An Important Announcement | Readability Blog (via extraface)
Should we have registered?
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Can Garden Farming Be Too Successful? « The... →
More thought-provoking stuff from Gene Logsdon … which reminds me that I need to bring my post on FH King off the back burner and to the boil.
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Food prices and speculation
The chart accompanying an article in the FT: Debate swirls over impact of speculation.
Didn’t work too well the first time, so trying again.
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Noma Staff Meal →
Not exactly sure how to embed a video from this site; just watch it, if this sort of thing interests you.
Danish photographer and filmmaker Simon Ladefoged captures a never-before-documented dimension of Noma, revealing what the chefs at the award-winning eatery cook for their own pre-service meal. Famed for artful Nordic dishes involving delicate, laborious work such as preening deep-fried moss...
