Bread Riots. Again. This Time the Middle East.
Of the top 20 wheat importers for 2010, almost half are Middle Eastern countries. The list reads like a playbook of toppled and teetering regimes: Egypt (1), Algeria (4), Iraq…
Read moreThe Cuisine of the Venezuelan Andes
Jean-Luc Crucifix The last few days I’ve been corresponding with several people about how to use the internet to record the cuisines of the humble. This site, Forgotten Recipies of…
Read moreHunger, Bread, Free Trade, and the Moral Consumer
Samuel Palmer, Gleaning for Wheat under a Harvest Moon, 1833 from Feasts and Festivals Sometimes things just come together. Last week I spent a good bit of time at a…
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