Category Archives: food

Underutilized Crops

Reading about the history of spelt and emmer today, I discovered that Wikipedia has a category devoted to underutilized crops—it’s a term of art in agricultural biodiversity circles—highlighting 95 crops that don’t see a lot of agrarian action these days. There’s some interesting stuff in there, like Dioscorea opposita, the lube yam, and the only […]

It’s that Veat. That Veat, that Veat…

Yes, it’s that veat. I have a strange fondness for packaged meat alternatives… not because I’m vegetarian, mind, because I’m not. Some of them are just such gosh-darnedly awesome Future Foods. Particularly Quorn — really, who among you can resist a delicious flavored loaf of vat-fermented mycoprotein? — but also smokey tempeh “bacon”, Field […]