How Medieval Islam Transformed Farming (and Food)

      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) . …

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Culinary Heritage: Hawaii Make It Pay

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…

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Another way to look at farm subsidies

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…

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