A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
New episode: Quinoa’s Rise and Fall
Between 2007 and 2014 farmers on the altiplano of Peru saw their income from quinoa increase by almost 900%. The boom was followed even more quickly by a bust.
https://eatthispodcast.com/quinoa
Today's Eat This Newsletter has a couple of items about quinoa, takes a closer look at red-fleshed apples and rounds up some slightly delayed takes on Thanksgiving. Read it at
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-224-life-happens/
#Quinoa "is like the erotic sci-fi murals found in Saddam Hussein’s palaces—pretentious and tasteless" Uh-huh http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21718516-spread-exotic-grains-evidence-globalisation-works-pra...