Urban Probiotics

IMAGE: Gut flora redesign, using a yogurt vehicle, is already a commonplace activity at breakfast tables around the world. For many, the consumption of probiotic supplements is already a daily routine — a regular, intentional, and frequently yogurt-based effort to...

Travels with Venue

IMAGE: Venue’s identity, designed by Folkert Gorter, spotted in the wild. Site visits and interviews have formed the basis of many of my favourite posts on Edible Geography over the years, whether it be documenting a trip to the mushroom tunnel of Mittagong in...

Prince Charles’ Leftover Bread Pudding

IMAGE: From left to right, Prince Charles’ leftover chunk of bread and butter pudding, Michael Winner, and the morsel of lemon drizzle cake he didn’t consume. Photo: Apex via The Guardian. A charming article in today’s Guardian simultaneously alerts...

The Most Beautiful Corn in the World

IMAGE: Glass gem corn, via the Seeds Trust Facebook page. This photograph of an ear of glass gem corn has been making the rounds on the internet over the past week (often accompanied with a note declaring it is NOT PHOTOSHOPPED!). What happened is that, last year,...

The History and Techniques of Napkin Folding

For the second in her lovely “On the Table” series exploring “the encounter between food and art,” writer Charlotte Birnbaum has focused on the overlooked riches of European napkin-folding culture. IMAGE: The covers of the first two books in...