Cumin, Cuminum cyminum, is probably my all time favorite culinary spice.Since I use it in just about everything that I cook, I am
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DR. JAMES NARDI says you can tell a lot about a tree by the company it keeps. From life in the soil around their roots to the action up in their canopies, trees are swarming with engagement—unseen microbes and fungi, countless insects and other arthropods, and vertebrates like birds, squirrels, and even porcupines.
Jim Nardi spoke about their diverse community of companions. He is research scientist in the School of Integrative Biology at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the author and illustrator of several previous books. His latest is “The Hidden Company That Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips” (affiliate link).
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the company trees keep, with dr. james nardiMargaret Roach: Welcome, Jim. Now you don’t just know all this and write all this, but you illustrate these two books of yours?
Jim Nardi: Yes, I do.
Margaret: Oh my goodness.
Jim: I find it very soothing and relaxing, and I learn a lot from such close observation that’s required in order to draw these creatures.
Margaret: Oh, the illustrations are just, I’m so charmed, I’m just so drawn in.
Jim: Thank you.
Margaret: And it’s funny, when I was reading the book and looking at the illustrations I was thinking of another favorite author, the biologist and prolific author, Bernd Heinrich, formerly from University of Vermont.
Jim: Oh, yes. Sure.
Margaret: And because he illustrates his, too. And so I thought oh myCumin, Cuminum cyminum, is probably my all time favorite culinary spice.Since I use it in just about everything that I cook, I am
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