Fullilove, Courtney (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 113
Issue: 3
Pages: 625-636
This essay considers the preservation of prickly alkanet, a wild plant that is a constituent of Palestinian cuisine. While tracking the dominant practices of biodiversity preservation that justify the documentation and collection of plants in national and international systems, it ultimately suggests recipes rather than seeds as targets of preservation. For, in seed saving oriented toward community control of resources, knowledge of the plant begins with the ability to prepare it for the table, not with the ability to analyze it in a lab or cultivate it in a field. As a logic of biodiversity preservation, cooking thus serves as an expression of community solidarity and a counter-hegemonic form of knowledge, prioritizing the local sharing of resources and rituals above floristic nationalisms and the extractive complex of international food security. Such an approach calls into question the orientation of modern agricultural development, which has prioritized increasing yield in primary cereal crops.
...MoreArticle Prakash Kumar (2022) Introduction: Seeds and the History of Science. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 581-587).
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