Bread Riots. Again. This Time the Middle East.
Of the top 20 wheat importers for 2010, almost half are Middle Eastern countries. The list reads like a playbook of toppled and teetering regimes: Egypt (1), Algeria (4), Iraq…
Read moreMexican 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…
Read moreWho ground the chocolate? Not a trivial question
Of all the difficult things to turn into food (and most plants and animals are difficult to turn into food), cacao beans and their processing rank way up there. Let’s…
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