Cryptoforestry

Nice paper on PLOS: ' Phytoliths in Pottery Reveal the Use of Spice in European Prehistoric Cuisine '. The title pretty much says...

Walafrid Strabo (808-849) was, among many other things, the author of the gardening poem Hortulus, an account of the herbs he grew in his g...

" Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ... and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae " (1858-63) by Wi...

Of all books that I have read last decade Gary Snyder's 'Practice of the Wild' has made the most impact on me. The selected let...

Below is a story from ' Changing Pathways: Forest Degradation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia ' (2004) by Tuck-Po Lye. It is T...

It is hard to escape the image of the modern day wild plant watcher as a bearded teacher of the old stamp who would wear a dear stalker o...

John Josselyn is known in environmental history as the first author to record changes in the floral landscape of the new world as a consequ...

Yarrow ( Gerarde 1597 ) To most people the common yarrow will be a weedy roadside plant best kept out of the garden. It is easy to ov...

This is a paper right up my street: " Plant Diversity in the Human Diet: Weak Phylogenetic Signal Indicates Breadth " (2008; Pr...

The theory of food pairing inspires little faith ( see earlier ) but when moving away from culinary applications perhaps it can be used to d...

The Columbian Exchange (as coined by Alfred Crosby), the process of two separate ecosystems mixing, is something that continues to this da...

In her Ilfracombe Journal (May/June 1856) we find George Eliot excitedly botanizing, she saw no plants only vivid ideas; to name the worl...

  Franco Moretti teaches literary at Stanford and I feel conned in spending 15 Euro on his 2005 book 'Graphs, Maps, Trees, Abstract m...

"Our medieval ancestors actively encouraged weeds in their vegetable plots. The Fromond List, compiled by Surrey landowner Thomas Fromo...

' Experimental cookery, from the chemical and physical standpoint ' (1932) by Belle Lowe is meant for the domestic cook but I thin...