Why Do Some Plants Become Food Crops and Others Not? And What Does That Tell Us?

  Out of thousands of plant species, only a few are important food crops Globally important food crops in the early twenty-first century include wheat, rice, sugarcane, maize, soya bean,…

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Molli Chamoy Sauce: Go Figure

Molli Chamoy Sauce: Go Figure

  Sometimes in a recipe, or a menu, or a store, I run across something that makes me chuckle with glee because it is so telling. That happened last week…

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Goulash, Romantic Nationalism, and Eszter Kisbán

It’s a funny feeling when you have a sense of knowing someone when you have never met them and read only a few of their works. That’s the case with…

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