Colin Tudge’s Great Re‑Think
This website is intended to identify and develop the ideas needed to rescue humanity and our fellow creatures from what is now the brink of total disaster — for if only we did conceptually simple things well then we and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: the next million years for starters.
Recent articles from the Blog
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Homemade Mincemeat
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Making your own mincemeat is easy, although sourcing the ingredients seems to get harder. Once you have made your own you are unlikely ever to go back to shop-bought.
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How Best to Teach Cooking?
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Is a return to cookery lessons at school the best way to teach Enlightened Cookery? What are the options and which might work best in today’s world?
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ENLIGHTENED COOKERY 1: Agriculture is vital – and so is enlightened cookery
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After more than 60 years of inquiry and self-indulgence Colin Tudge concludes that good farming, sound nutrition, great gastronomy, and care of the natural world could and should operate in perfect harmony. This offers a very significant ray of hope in an otherwise desperate world Enlightened Agriculture is vital if we, humanity, seriously aspire to…
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ENLIGHTENED COOKERY 2: Changes of mind and paradigm shifts: an impressionistic account of how nutritional theory has changed since the mid-20th century
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When I was first introduced formally to biology in the 1950s it was widely felt at least among people at large and also by a great many scientists that science could and should be a search for irrefutable and even absolute truth. It was further widely supposed that cast-iron truth could and must be arrived…
The Big Idea
The Big Idea is divided into the following chapters:
The pic — of me (CT) among some of John Letts’ Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire — encapsulates some of the prime themes of The Great Re-Think. For John raises genetically diverse cereals on soils of low fertility year-on-year: no fertilizer, no pesticide, no herbicide, no digging, no fallow, and all wonderfully wildlife-friendly: key principles of agroecology applied to arable. All this is the complete opposite of the modern, industrial trend — monocultures of uniform crops chemicalized to the hilt. To rescue the world at this late hour we need to apply such radical thinking to all aspects of life.
Recent comments
I have through both choice and chance had a somewhat varied and wild life; I was raised with an inquisitive…
“What has the PAST done for us?” A Lot: more that we can ever imagine…. “I want to look at…
Hi Colin. I read your recent blog with great interest. Diverse polycultures are the best way to do agriculture at…
I am writing this email from Torino in Italy. I came here to participate in the 40th anniversary celebration of…
As long as this article is it is clearly just a scamper through the history of the subject! It confirms…