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Coffee flour makes for decadent pancakes.
food

Fight Food Waste With Unusual Flours

Add something extra to your baking.
Andrew Coletti January 15, 2024
Saint-Leu, Réunion

Musée Stella Matutina

A museum dedicated to the history of sugar cultivation on Réunion island.
Ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg are so-called warm spices and the quintessential flavors of winter holidays.
holidays

How Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg Became Winter Spices

These tropical "warm spices," which flavor many Christmas cookies and other holiday favorites, are mainstays of traditional medicine.
Serina DeSalvio December 18, 2023
Manatí, Puerto Rico

Frutos del Guacabo

This sustainable, family-run farm just outside of San Juan makes for a dreamy daytrip.
An ostrich egg, alongside a regular chicken egg for scale.
food

I Bought an Ostrich Egg, and Here's What I Made With It

First step: Grab a hammer.
Anne Ewbank November 20, 2023
Pöschel (left) and Schmelzer, with the mite-cheese monument in Würchwitz.
insects

The Biology Teacher Resurrecting Germany's 500-Year-Old Mite Cheese

At this charming farm, quirk meets quark to make a unique cheese.
Susannah Edelbaum November 13, 2023
St. Louis Park, Minnesota

Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator

This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement.
Vidalia onions must be planted, harvested, and cured by hand.
onions

Looking for the Perfect Onion

From Georgia to New Zealand, the quest for a sweet, painless onion continues.
Mark Kurlansky November 7, 2023
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma National Stockyards

The largest cattle market on earth holds live auctions open to the public every week.
This illustration from a Medieval manuscript shows bees returning to a skep hive.
bees

The Magic Spells That Herded Medieval Bees

For European beekeepers, “swarm charms” were once a tool of the trade.
Andrew Coletti October 20, 2023
Dampierre-sur-Boutonne, France

Asinerie du Baudet du Poitou

A public center dedicated to showcasing and conserving the enormous shaggy Poitou donkey.
Boyds, Maryland

King Barn Dairy MOOseum

This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.
The panels on every AŽ hive house tell a story.
bees

Slovenia's Beautiful Beehives Turn Apiaries Into Art

Dating back to the 18th century, AŽ hive panels depict stories of marriage, damnation, and daily life.
Rebecca L. Rhoades September 29, 2023
An extremely rare purple-red diamond came from the Argyle volcano and mine in Western Australia, source of almost all of the world's pink diamonds.
science

Wonder Is Everywhere: Lincoln’s Crooked Bowtie, the Mystery of Pink Diamonds, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White September 29, 2023
A Calabrian citron in Michele Cirelli's orchard. A perfect etrog like this one, with its characteristic bumps and ridges and a skin free from blemishes, can fetch hundreds of dollars in New York or Montreal.
food

Every Year, Rabbis Search Calabria for the Perfect Etrog

An ideal fruit can go for as much as $300.
John Last September 26, 2023
science

Podcast: The Ark of Citrus

A sweet archive of almost biblical proportions can be found at the University of California, Riverside.
The Podcast Team September 20, 2023
farms

Podcast: Fenway Victory Gardens

This "victory garden" grew produce to help bolster dwindling food supplies during World War II.
The Podcast Team September 11, 2023
Wild bluebells, native to the area, are thriving once more on Eoghan Daltun's land on Ireland's Beara Peninsula.
forests

Rewilding His Corner of Ireland's Beara Peninsula Is One Man's Labor of Love

Eoghan Daltun has spent 14 years creating a showcase of native biodiversity.
Rory Carroll August 21, 2023