Stories
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
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Performance art, frozen in time
For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
Catalogue
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Fruit against a blue sky; advertising the eating of fruit. Colour lithograph, 1943 (?).
Retail fruit trade federation.Date: [1943?]Reference: 679651i- Videos
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Clinical nutrition : dietary fibre. Part 1.
Date: 1977
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Vegetables and citrus fruits represented as reducing the risk of cancer. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Kankerbestrijding/KWF, 2001.
Date: [2001]Reference: 749561i- Books
Fruits, vegetables, and herbs : bioactive foods in health promotion / edited by Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy.
Date: [2016]- Pictures
Vegetables against a yellow ground; advertising the eating of vegetables. Colour lithograph, 1943 (?).
Date: [1943?]Reference: 679652i