Showing posts with label garlic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garlic. Show all posts

The Anthropology of Food

Found! For the high-brow among you, the website The Anthropology of Food blog, written in English and French because, why wouldn't it be?

Welcome Anthropology of food, the webjournal dedicated to the social sciences of food. Anthropology of food is an open access bilingual academic journal in French and English. Since 1999, this journal is produced and published by a network of European academic researchers sharing a common intellectual interest in the social science of food

The Science of Garlic

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These garlic shoot tips were immersed in droplets of cryoprotecting solution, then plunged into liquid nitrogen to preserve genetic diversity of the vegetatively propagated germplasm. (Photo by Stephen Ausmus)

Aren't they pruutty

You probably aren't aware that researchers at ARS are also the experts on identifying which garlics are truly different, as opposed to the same variety with different names.

Since garlic doesn't reproduce by seeds, varieties of garlic are kept as clones, individuals with exactly the same genes. This means that if you buy a bulb of California Early garlic in a grocery story in Phoenix, Arizona, it's supposedly identical to the California Early that I buy at my local supermarket in Maryland.


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