Where Our Food Comes From

This just came in the mail, and I'm looking forward to reading it:

Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine.


There is a really interesting encyclopedia of food crops at our local library. My sister, who enjoys growing unusual fruits, pointed me to a nursery called Edible Landscapes that, among other things, sells Paw Paw trees. It's a shame most people don't know about the native edible plants of their own locality.

Books I'm reading, sorta

Little Dorritt; Graded Go Problems V. 1; Mycelium Running; How to Build Kids' Playhouses; a book on Paul by Crossnan and Borg (just skimmed it for highlights); just finished The Gears of the City (an OK imitation of Perdido Street Station, but I liked it a lot better than China Mieville's actual latest, Kraken); and some bits of Hegel.