Food Aid in Africa. Thoughts from the Field

Diana Buja, known to many of you on this list, offered this long comment on foreign aid in response to one of my posts on Michael Pollan’s Farmer-in-Chief.  Because it…

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Bread: A Problem for English Tea in a Foreign Land

Whenever I plan a tea, the problem of bread arises.  Bread is central to English tea. You need a good old-fashioned English loaf for slicing thick for hot toast or…

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Update on Romanian Pig Slaughtering

Mihaela Lica who has a blog “Romania: Simply Surprising” posted last year on the annual killing of pigs for the Christmas meal, the subject of some debate in the EU. …

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