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Consider this rather advance notice, but the Less Sociable Half will be taking part in a panel discussion sponsored by the Cambridge Global Food Security research initiative, the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute and the Forum for Sustainability and the Environment. The discussion is part of the University of Cambridge’s Festival of Ideas, and we’ll be at the David Attenborough Building, (New Museums...

Apologies for not getting a blog post out in almost two weeks. Besides the WSET exams yesterday (more on those soon), I’ve been spoilt for choice. Yes, indeed. The silence isn’t the lack of something to say, but rather I have three blog posts in various states of unreadiness. Some are even on the research topic of Anthroenology – wine and sustainability. Speaking of sustainability – in the next week or so, the...

It seems every time I tell myself I’ll be better at blogging, I get worse. It’s with more than a bit of embarrassment that I realise it’s been almost two months since I’ve posted here. Here’s a brief list of what we’ve been up to since my last post. Anthroenology has done two short, but very rewarding periods of fieldwork. In September, we were in Austria, and in October, we spent a few days down in Sussex & Kent. I’ll do...

For those of you who aren’t following us on either Facebook or Twitter (for shame!), Anthroenology is currently in the field. I have a backlog of updates for the blog, but those are on hold. Look for us on Facebook or Twitter to see what goes on in the next week or so. 

Wait. It’s September?! At the start of the summer, one of my plans was to blog here weekly. As you may have noticed, that hasn’t quite happened. That doesn’t mean we’ve been completely inactive. I should more accurately say ‘I’ instead of ‘we’. Julia – the more sociable half – has been busy with numerous things. So, in an attempt to kill two birds with one stone, I’m going to blog about why I haven’t been blogging.Let me start with a...

Well, according to the WSET Unit 6 (fortified wines) exam results, anyway. My pride is somewhat assuaged by the fact that at least I passed the theory section. (One can insert here all the jokes about academics being useless in the real world.)I’m still debating spending the money WSET charges to get the feedback on the tasting section. It might be interesting to see how close I was to what they thought the fortified wines should...