As the market has shown saffron at times has toppled gold with its price per gram and in ancient times was used as currency. Here’s a nice piece about very local “saffron” from LuckyPeach.com
Author Archives: Alejandro Cantagallo
White House Meeting Elicits Pledges to Reduce Antibiotic Use
The FDA Bans Trans-Fats in Restaurants
They Will Squash You
Urban Gardening on the Third Floor
The Piscivore’s Dilemma
OK… I’m packing my bags and moving to Italy
Something we take for granted here in the US, but the artisanal production of cheese is truly and artistic expression.
So much food is wasted because it’s ugly
Food is simply too good to waste. Even the most sustainably farmed food does us no good if the food is never eaten. Getting food to our tables eats up 10 percent 12 of the total U.S.energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S.land, and swallows 80 percent of freshwater consumed in the United States.3 Yet, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten.4 That is more than 20 pounds of food per person every month.5 Not only does this mean that Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year,6 but also 25 percent of all freshwater7 and huge amounts of unnecessary chemicals, energy, and land. Moreover, almost all of that uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills where organic matter accounts for 16 percent of U.S. methane emissions.
You Can’t Always Trust a Title – The Good News About E. Coli Food Poisoning
Chickens, Chickens Everywhere!
Watch John Oliver skewer the chicken industry: