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/
I got excited when I saw Chris Aldrich's link to an article "In praise of quinoa" in The Atlantic. Synchronicity and all that. Turns out, it isn't in The Atlantic, but just the old Economist leader on the subject.
Heigh ho.
#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...