Cryptoforestry

The Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy working group responsible for setting a precise boundary between the middle and late Pleistoce...

" Predicting pre-Columbian anthropogenic soils in Amazonia " or read about as pop-science . The practical application of this I...

Do you know John Mcphee, Dostoyevsky in the age of Discovery Channel ? He is only one of the greatest stylist in contemporary non-fiction. B...

Map your recipe can tell you where some of the ingredients were first domesticated, but it won't tell you where they are grown today...

Cookbooks, which usually belong to the humble literature of complex civilizations, tell unusual cultural tales. They combine the sturdy pra...

Three maps freed with a little screen-shot magic from a Google Books preview of Vavilov's ' Origin and Geography of Cult...

Etnobotanica brings together papers on European wild plant use in places that I would consider obscure (ohh that Dutch self-centredness). T...

  The six months or so before his book Scarp (2012) was published deep topographer Nick Papadimitriou was the talk of the psychogeographe...

  From various places (Gutenberg, Archive, Bit-Torrent) I have collected the full text of 29 cookbooks published between 1390 and 2010. ...

For 75UK Pounds 'The wild foods of Great Britain' can book can be yours today on Ebay: that's a bit much for me but these three ...

“It has been suggested that nature is hostile, violent and unpredictable, and that the Indians try to bring order into this confusion b...

Alex Atala is a Brazilian chef whose is renowned for his championing of Brazilian (read Amazonian) ingredients. He has got a book out call...

1) Peel the pineapple and cut it into 4 equal cubes. 2) Place a piece of pineapple on top of a serving dish and top with an ant. Serve i...

As an additional window on the history of our most basic foodstuffs I have compiled a list of etymological first-use.  It was here but I n...

R.S.R Fitter's ' London's Natural History ' (1945) is what we would now call an environmental history of Greater London. ...