Passions Of Food - Special Day at #SciAmBlogs

Organic Farming and Risk, Coffee Culture, Wasted Groceries: It's Food Day at the Scientific American Blog Network

By Bora Zivkovic?| Aug 11, 2011 02:40 PM

Welcome to the huge and wonderful day here at the Scientific American blog network, where we are having great fun discussing food and trends in modern agriculture and why people are so passionate about these topics. Here is a compilation of all of today?s post covering these topics, as well as a choice collection of [...]

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