What’s This Bird?

This beautiful bird (that I sadly can’t identify) was on the neem tree outside my window. So if you know what bird this is, I’d appreciate a message below! Ours is an older house, the types that were built with gardens, and it always amazes me how in the middle of this crowded, congested, polluted [...]

Why women in the Andes grew 4000 species of potatoes

The potato — brown and boring!  Insipid and starchy.  The poor man’s food.  For some of my carnivorous friends — it is the only form of vegetable consumed.  When people go on diet — this is the first food item to get banned.  It has been blamed for the Irish famine and now for America’s [...]

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