Why Do Some Plants Become Food Crops and Others Not? And What Does That Tell Us?

  Out of thousands of plant species, only a few are important food crops Globally important food crops in the early twenty-first century include wheat, rice, sugarcane, maize, soya bean,…

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What’s In and What’s Out? Luxury Plant Foods in the Twentieth Century

Fashion in plant foods?  Well, yes. Spices become humdrum, kale rockets from cattle feed to pampered darling of the vegetable cooler in the supermarket. A month or two ago Stephen…

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