Essays & Lectures:
Botany for the Home Cook – Explore the ways plant structure and chemistry affect how we prepare and cook them.
Botany of Sugars – Culture and biology crystallize as historical impacts on production, diets, and nutrition.
Carpology – Walking through a fruit market with three different hats.
Reports:
There is Death in the Pot – One of the first English broadsides against adulteration of foodstuffs was written by London Apothecary Friedrich Accum in 1820.
Dualing Capers – A curious addition to your kitchen garden or rockery would be a Caper Bush, a low Mediterranean shrub that is the source of pickled buds (capers) and fruit (caper berries).