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Part one ended in a Tuscan osteria where everything on the table came from the valley outside. This one starts in a pub in an Australian wine region, vines on every side, where I asked what local wines they had and got a blank look.
By Leo Gaggl
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I’ve just spent some time in the hills between eastern Tuscany and north-western Umbria, and I kept running the same small experiment without meaning to. Walk into an ordinary osteria in a town nobody outside the province has heard of. Ask for the house wine. Ask where the oil on the table came from, and the cheese, and the meat in the ragù. The answer, almost every time, is a place you can see from the window.
By Leo Gaggl
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In 2018, IBM and Maersk launched TradeLens: a blockchain platform meant to digitise global shipping, replacing the paper trail that follows a container from a Vietnamese factory to a Rotterdam warehouse with a single, shared, tamper-proof ledger. It had the backing of two of the largest logistics operators on earth. By 2023, it was dead.
By Leo Gaggl
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