Links to Reads: January 2015

Carrots

February is here. I am a bit late with previous month’s Links to Reads, but better late than never. Here’s a selection of some of the interesting articles I read in January. Enjoy!

* What type to use? How’s and why’s of cooking oils.

* Burying fig trees? Yes. It is a curious Italian tradition.

* United Nations goes United Noshes! Global cuisine at dinner parties.

* What exactly is a meal like in space?

* Loss of pollinators, like bees, increases risk of malnutrition and disease.

* There are some 1,400 varieties of cheese in the world today. See the Map of Cheese.

* A tree grows 40 different types of fruit. When science meets nature.

* An avocado a day may help keep bad cholesterol at bay.

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