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From the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog via Lapham’s Quarterly: No, those aren’t the ingredients for some kind of wacky new dish. But they do offer some insights into the global realpolitik and social status of the food bizniss, past and present. This map is great for our upcoming “Planetary Sculpture Supper Club” event.

We recently ran into these depictions of the Fish Tomato: Tagry posted this Animated GIF on a long LiveJournal debate about GMOs in Russian. Patrick Collier told us about this painting from 2005, titled “That’s Disgusting (Fish Gene into Tomato)” by Jenny M. Smith which is included in Oregon State University’s College of Agriculture’s art [...]

The Center for Genomic Gastronomy finds itself increasingly interested in the New Nordic Cuisine movement. A 10-point manifesto from 2004 remains an interesting platform: MANIFESTO FOR THE NEW NORDIC KITCHEN As Nordic chefs we find that the time has now come for us to create a New Nordic Kitchen, which in virtue of its good [...]

The Purpose of a Food System is What it Does We Have Always Been Biohackers Agriculture is GeoEngineering in Action As Fitness Functions, Efficiency and Fungibility Lead to Brittle Systems A Recipe is a Social Biotechnology A Menu is an Appropriate Biotechnology Agriculture is a Technology There is Nothing Natural About Agriculture

The Continued Scientist Gardener Conversation (Last rebuttal I promise, then we will move onto new topics : ) Hi Mat – No worries, we are also pretty slow on response time these days. Here a few thoughts / questions based on your responses. After this I PROMISE to move on to a new topic of [...]

We have been writing articles and doing research on the BT Brinjaal debate for over a year now and have been learning more about the history of Eggplant. We never knew why it is called Eggplant in the United States but Aubergine in many other english speaking countries until we read this: “The African eggplant [...]

A few months ago I wrote a short blog post “Transgenic Papaya & Taking Into Account” wondering if the application of genetic engineering makes sense when facing a very specific agriculture challenge like Papaya ringspot. However, “Papaya Protected From Virus by Wild Relative” on the Agricultural Biodiversity Blog makes me reconsider my comments. Luigi writes: [...]

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