Are there enough mushroom eaters out there?

This week’s Economist reports that Alethia Vázquez-Morillas of the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City and her colleagues have found that cultivating the right type of mushroom on soiled nappies…

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Islamic Agronomy in Mexico

Jeremy Cherfas over at Agrobiodiversity mentioned that I thought there were traces of the agricultural techniques of Medieval Islam in Mexico (and presumably the rest of Latin America). I don’t…

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Mexican supermarkets versus US supermarkets

A couple of months in the US has given me lots of time to ponder these differences which reveal so much about the way the two countries actually eat, as…

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