Rachel Laudan

      Now here’s a terrific resource, a really reliable site dedicated to medieval Arabic manuals on farming produced all over the medieval Islamic world (see map above) .  You probably already know but the medieval Islamic states transformed agriculture from Spain to parts of India, from the Sahel to Sicily. The purpose of [...]

As I thought about it, I decided to make this a separate post. In Hawaii, the question of native Hawaiian heritage has expanded from maintaining taro cultivation, the big topic in the 90s, to include hand pounding taro to make poi.  To all of you out there who suspect that a purple puree can’t be [...]

It’s a cliché that farm subsidies benefit large farmers at the expense of small farmers.  Now along comes Mike Smith of Truth in Food to offer a new way of looking at subsidies.  And anything that challenges a cliché is good with me if it’s based on evidence. As the chart below shows, while it’s [...]