Considering they can’t wield a knife or cleaver, dolphins make impressive butchers. Researchers in Australia recently observed a bottlenose performing a precise series of manoeuvres to kill, gut and bone a cuttlefish. The six-step procedure gets rid of the invertebrate’s unappetising ink and hard-to-swallow cuttlebone.

(Via kottke.org.)

I know of no writer other than Berry who could make the differences between poll bean cultivars seem so significant from a flavor *and* spiritual perspective, or who would traipse down to Peru to research both the indigenous cultures, their great variety of potatoes (over 90 varieties, and all tastier than our spuds) and then connect all of the above back to personal international and local politics, agriculture, lifestyle and identity issues.