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A recent episode of Eat This Podcast explored why the tomato, first recorded in England in the 1590s, took more than a century to become an important food. The explanation offered was that it took a combination of factors: a somewhat warmer climate, the movement of people and ...


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The Broad Spectrum Species: Plant Use and Processing as Deep Time Adaptations. Hundreds of plant species, many now forgotten, show up in archaeological assemblages stretching back tens of thousands of years. Exploiting an astonishing diversity of plants was a f...

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I decided to dig a little deeper into the climatic adaptation of Himalayan maize. You may remember from my last post on this that Genesys has 96 maize accessions from over 2000 masl in the Himalayas, collected at some 50-odd unique localities. When I ra...


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Check out Jeremy’s latest Eat This Newsletter for his pithy takes on recent articles on fonio beer and the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. Talk about opportunity crops.


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