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Eat This Newsletter 297: Proudly inefficient Hello It’s possible that there is a strand that connects all today’s topics. It may be more efficient not to cook, but it robs you of real food. It may be...

Eat This Newsletter 297: Proudly Inefficient

This time around, efficiency is a very poor metric when it comes to cooking, supply chains, microwaves and breakfast.

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WorldVeg secures over 90% of its global vegetable collections in the Arctic - World Vegetable Center Conservation milestone: WorldVeg secures over 90% of its global vegetable collections in the Arctic - 26 February 2026 - WorldVeg has deposited its latest shipment of vegetable seeds in the ...

WorldVeg secures over 90% of its global vegetable collections in the Arctic - World Vegetable Center avrdc.org/worldveg-gen...

A black and white photograph of a Waffle House late at night with a quote from the book superimposed in purple lettering. The quote reads ”You are more likely to find the raw ingredients for a better future for the food system at the Waffle House than you are at your local farmers’ market.”

”You are more likely to find the raw ingredients for a better future for the food system at the Waffle House than you are at your local farmers’ market.”

Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz talking about their new book Feed The People!

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#agriculture #food #podcast

Another chance for Bambara groundnut Yesterday's Nibble on the always-on-the-verge-of-breaking-out Bambara groundnut had me rummaging through the archives. Among dozens of references, I came across a post from almost 15 years ago that in...

Another chance for Bambara groundnut – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/the-...

Podcast cover artwork, an illustration from the cover of the book.

Is the food system broken? No, say @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and Gabriel Rosenberg. Their new book explains Why Industrial Food Is Good and How To Make It Even Better.

We had a good chat, from cellular agriculture to labour in the food industry.

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#agriculture #policy

It looks pretty and Prince Charles (lol) said it's sustainable is, uh, not how you adjudicate environmental impact.

The standard riposte to that is, you're eating the wrong ones. Well grown, they are delicious. But the ones you are most likely to find piled high in a supermarket are not well grown. So, yes and no.

Eat This Newsletter 296: Long Lasting Hello It’s good to be back on the usual schedule — alternating podcasts and newsletters weekly — as it gives me a little more time to seek out interesting...

New issue of Eat This Newsletter.

- Botanists in the newsletter
- Diversity in the field
- Milk in the cupboard
- Georgia in the news
- Olives in the ground
- Rice in the bank

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I know who you're reading.

Brainfood: Diversity of Sugarcane, Rice, Lentils, Olives, Sweetpotato, Cassava, Beans, Buckwheat, Pigeon pea, Landscapes – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/brai...

#agrobiodiversity #conservation #genebanks #biodiversity #seeds

A gift to your heart.

Too gnomic? Never!

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Food Notes from an American Prison

Edward Hasbrouck reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.

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“Let the scientists and their interpreters fight it out over single nutrients. Eat food and enjoy your dinner.”

Noted on this day in 2010, still noteworthy today.

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Boar's Head reopens Virginia deli meat plant tied to deadly listeria outbreak Company and federal officials said the Boar's Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly 2024 listeria food poisoning outbreak is back in business.

“Boar’s Head reopens Virginia deli meat plant tied to deadly listeria outbreak”

I’m sure it will be absolutely fine.

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#food

Come to Italy. It's a national pastime.

Pecan inside – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/peca...

#conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #history #nuts

Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 When the eradication program began in 1986, there were a 3.5 million cases.

Some good news!

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Very good news. Congratulations.

Thank you for tolerating my parochial laziness.

South Carolina tops Texas measles outbreak record—with no end in sight Since start of the year, South Carolina's outbreak has accelerated dramatically.

If only there was some way of preventing measles

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XKCD 2982 shows "How Water Filtration Works" an absurd flow from well water to faucet.

Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet

* A water sommelier walks into a spa ...
* Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
* Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.

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Is she famous, or something? Or is this generalised lack of knowledge?

Genebank data at a crossroads – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/gene...

#genebanks #datamanagement #conservation #biodiversity

Interesting. I keep reading about fine American cheeses from small producers. I suppose it depends on who stocks what where you are.

Don't worry about it. I'm in the same bucket, and my choice is to buy from small meat and small dairy.

Frozen 2: This time it’s crop diversity – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/froz...

#conservation #biodiversity #cryopreservation #cropdiversity #genebanks

Guardian of a (nearly) forgotten staple honoured – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/guar...

#agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds #conservation #breadfruit #pacific #hawaii

The Brassica: Cabbage, Broccoli and Other Childhood Nemeses There is probably no more feared food group than the plants that come from the Brassicaceae family. Also known as the cruciferous vegetables, this family, surely a practical joke played by God on children, includes the plants that bring us cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kale, mustard greens, arugula, turnips, kohlrabi, broccoli, cauliflower and many other childhood nemeses. If you want to disappoint a child tell them that there is a cruciferous vegetable for dinner.

Everything you ever wanted to know about cruciferous vegetables but were afraid to ask

New Eat This Newsletter 293: Normal Service

Parmigian-Reggiano’s Hail Mary pass
Gastronationalism in Italy and the Levant
Gourmet undead

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