Secret Obsessions is Atlas Obscura’s new column, in which we ask wondrous people to take us down a rabbit hole. As told to Atlas Obscura Editorial Fellow Sarah...
Tag - Asia
By Joel S Hirschhorn | December 30, 2021 This is from a recent news story: “The Pandemic in Japan was going out of control, yet the Japanese government was smart...
The spice that we call cloves comes from the clove tree, Syzygium aromaticum. This evergreen herbal tree is in the Myrtle (Myrtaceae) family and is native to the Molucca...
by Matt Millage After a brief email exchange with a colleague last fall around this same time, I set off to collect some fallen treasures from the forest floor from a...
… and how I increase my stock of it on an annual basis. Comfrey has almost become a cliché in permaculture circles. Many sustainable gardeners in temperate...
As the weather dives into lower temps, we enter yet another cold and flu season. It’s the time of year when the chances of “coming down with something” increase. If you...
A recent study was done with ‘ceremonial grade’ matcha, which is a type of green tea powder made from whole dried leaves. The contents of the whole leaf are...
The other day, I was cooking galbijjim: stewed short ribs. According to Maangchi’s Big Book of Korean Cooking, by the supreme online cooking teacher Maangchi, this...
Goats and dogs were among the first animals to be domesticated by humans. Bone remains found in archaeological sites and advances in genetics have, over the last three...
Honeybees have Increased 85% in the Last 60 Years By Hank Campbell | A new analysis finds that if there ever was a “Beepocalypse”, it hasn’t been...