In 2014 The Economist dubbed China “The Empire of the Pig”. By that year, nearly one half of all the planet’s pork was consumed and produced in the PRC, but pigs are more than just centerpieces of the Chinese diet—although who but the vegetarians among us can resist a plate of buttery pork belly?—and it’s upon those tasty trotters […]
Tag: Chinese Millet Project
Watered or not? That is the question
In recent decades, the study of prehistoric food globalization has provided us with a vivid picture of the translocation of crops domesticated at both ends of Eurasia from pre-5000 BC to around 1500 BC. Agriculture, at the intersection of nature and culture, manifests a joint force of anthropogenic and environmental influences. Thus, the diffusion of […]