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Our Daily Bread 10 - Dwarf wheat: On the shoulders of a giant http://ow.ly/GMGm30lkIm5 Norman Borlaug created the wheats that created the Green Revolution. They had short stems that could carry heavy ears of wheat, engorged by loads of fertiliser.

August 10, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

Our Daily Bread 09 - Red Fife http://ow.ly/U7aJ30liK2e �For more than 40 years, one wheat variety dominated the Canadian prairies. Red Fife -- the red-seeded wheat grown by David Fife, a Scottish immigrant -- gave the highest yields of the best qual

August 9, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

Our Daily Bread 08 - Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov http://ow.ly/nxbJ30liJUz This short episode fails to do justice to the man who, more than anyone, first grasped the importance of knowing where and how wheat arose. It does, however, explain why Vavilo

August 8, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

Our Daily Bread 07 - Bake like an Egyptian http://ow.ly/6CJ430lfJ7K Kamut® is a modern wheat -- registered and trademarked in 1990 -- with an ancient lineage. The word is ancient Egyptian, and the hieroglyphics may literally mean "Soul of the Earth

August 7, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

#174

Switching between multiple open windows in the same application – ldstephens

August 6, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

Learn something new and useful almost every day.

It was really good while it lasted; ...

August 6, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

It was really good while it lasted; thanks Ryan.

Our Daily Bread 06 - Hulled wheats http://ow.ly/hjYO30lfIYw Farro is not spelt. It isn't einkorn or emmer either. Farro "is an Italian ethnobotanical concept".

August 6, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

Our Daily Bread 05 - At last: agriculture http://ow.ly/tA7x30lfEr1 Very quick or slightly slower, in just a few hundred years, domesticated wheat spreads all over the Fertile Crescent.

August 5, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

Our Daily Bread 04 - What exactly is wheat? http://ow.ly/XhGe30lfEid How, and when, did modern wheat arise from its the wild ancestors?

August 4, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas

Continuing my daily podcast series, Our Daily Bread 03 - Crumbs; the oldest bread http://ow.ly/krTX30lfEc5 Bread, the archaeologists suggest, is not the product of a “civilized society” but perhaps a precursor to it.

August 3, 2018 Jeremy Cherfas
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