Two podcasts have been added to The Well-read Naturalist’s Recommended Podcast list.
Two Newly Recommended Podcasts
agriculture
Land of Plenty
One of the things I look toward with greatest anticipation each time I visit England are the opportunities these journeys provide to indulge in a wide range of direct-from-the-farm foods. I can’t speak for what’s to be found in “the City” as I’m rarely there, but in the countryside where I generally find myself, the availability, quality, and variety of locally grown or raised foodstuffs is truly delightful.
Thus I was particularly pleased to discover this week, thanks entirely to Mark Avery’s Sunday Book Review, a new book from Elliott & Thompson that had not yet come to my attention : Charlie Pye- Smith’s “Land of Plenty; A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain.”
So Much More Than Just Bacon
It was with no small amount of wholly unintentional irony that I began reading Mark Essig’s Lesser Beasts; A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig while eating a ham sandwich. Such is the ubiquity of pigs. Yet for all the many ways the lives of modern humans have and to this day continue to intersect […]
Pig Tales
Mr. Estabrook focuses this inquiry into pigs on their place in our modern world with particular emphasis on how they are now raised and processed into food, and contrasts that with ways that might be better for both the pigs as well as those who eat them.