Edible Geography
ediblegeography.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Nicola Twilley's blog on the geography, infrastructure, and history of food, from rice mutations to strategic food reserves.
What HN saysHN commenters link it as a detailed source on atomic gardening, apple rootstock archaeology, and strategic food reserves like maple syrup stockpiles.
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- 1Strange and Beautiful Seeds From the Atom (2011)4 people · 9 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Central de Abasto – World's Largest Food Market (2010)2 people · 14 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 3Spaces of Banana Control (2011)2 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 4The Importance of Acoustics in Food Storage1 people · 105 points · first shared 2016 · 9 comments on HN
- 5How to Clone Mineral Water (2012)1 people · 82 points · first shared 2018 · 13 comments on HN
- 6Honey Fences1 people · 71 points · first shared 2015 · 5 comments on HN
- 7The Nutritional Impossibility of Australia1 people · 40 points · first shared 2009 · 5 comments on HN
- 8Smog Meringues1 people · 39 points · first shared 2015 · 5 comments on HN
- 9The evolution of coffee cup lids1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10From Paris, With Smell (Communicating Smell)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 11The Impossibility of Historical Flavour1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Lunch: An Urban Invention1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 13Glacial Terroir1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14Edible Apple Tattoo1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Tweeting Breakfast1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
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bcraven · 2024-04-09
https://www.ediblegeography.com/rootstock-archaeology/
There's some detail here about how British researchers developed apple tree rootstocks, including photos of whole trees that have been excavated and reassembled.
Couple it with this documentary:
https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Apples:_British_to_the_Core
zasdffaa · 2022-10-22
Check out the global strategic maple syrup reserve (https://www.ediblegeography.com/syrup-stockpiles-wine-lakes-butter-mou…
beefman · 2021-05-23
According to this article,[1] cultivars produced with this method include Calrose 76 rice and Todd's Mitcham peppermint, which respecively account for roughly half of California's rice crop and a majority of the world's peppermint
[1] http://www.ediblegeography.com/strange-and-beautiful-seeds-from-the-at…
riffraff · 2019-11-29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
EDIT: you may be thinking of this article specifically http://www.ediblegeography.com/strange-and-beautiful-seeds-from-the-at…
> For example, a mutagenic Ruby Red grapefruit grown without the use of pesticides can be labeled as organic and thus be sold for a premium, despite the fact that organic foods by definition cannot be genetically modified.
KaiserPro · 2017-01-17
atombender · 2019-09-18
Cigarette butts seem to be the most common by count, but what about weight and volume?
On the streets of NYC, I don't really notice the cigarettes, but I do notice the enormous amount of plastic bags (much of it stuck in trees), plastic or paper cups, straws, takeout containers. And gum. If you ever look at a sidewalk and see dark splotches [1], that's discarded chewing gum. It's absolutely everywhere. Not as invasive, of course, just odd.
I don't know what SF is like, but NYC has a fascinatingly ugly system [2] where you're supposed to put trash and recycling out on the sidewalk for it to be collected, where it's effectively temporary litter. NYC's sanitation workers are notoriously careless about handling the trash, and my pet theory is that a sizable portion of street litter actually originates in the sanitation workers spilling trash on pickup day.
NYC's trash problem is also exacerbated by the fact that landlords can get away with not doing their part in keeping the outside of the building litter-free.
[1] https://www.ediblegeography.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Splotchy-pa…
[2] https://i.redd.it/x0iye2nog6m31.jpg