Butter for Industry. Or Non-Food Uses of Farm Products
From Nick Trachet of the Brussel Nieuws The county of Flanders was in the Ancien Régime known as Butter Country. The peasants made and sold butter and lived on butter…
Read moreHow Mexicans are escaping rural poverty (and not going north)
The New York Times a couple of days ago had a long and well researched article on the slowing of Mexican migration to the United States. Yeah. Mexican…
Read more100,000 years and counting–for eating grains, that is
Caption: These are Middle Stone Age food processing tools recovered from the Ngalue cave site, Mozambique. Credit: Grady Semmens, University of Calgary Usage Restrictions: None It used to be the…
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