3 March 2012
food & politics — #
Is the food revolution just a great big fat lie?
From the multimillionaire chefs who claim to be just like the rest of us to the multinationals making public health policy, there’s something a bit iffy about the new food culture
2 March 2012
food & technology — #
Forget The Fridge: Using Chemistry And Nature To Store Food
The cold of your fridge is actually ruining a lot of your (expensive, local, bought at the farmer’s market) produce. An artist’s project finds ways to use the way fruits and vegetables spoil to keep them fresh, the old-fashioned way.
19 February 2012
food & health — #
Whole Health Source: By 2606, the US Diet will be 100 Percent Sugar
Wrap your brain around this: in 1822, we ate the amount of added sugar in one 12 ounce can of soda every five days, while today we eat that much sugar every seven hours.
19 January 2012
food & culture — #
The Whisky Water Trick /via kottke
NSFW due to the topical but hardly necessary use of old-fashioned pin-up playing cards featuring nudes.
food & sustainability — #
Waldo Jaquith: On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
Further reflection revealed that it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in the fall. Mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly expensive—requiring a trio of cows—and demand many acres of land. There’s just no sense in it.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
2 November 2011
food & architecture — #
A Pop-Up Greenhouse Could Bring Farm-Fresh Food To Food Deserts
28 October 2011
media & food — #
This is brilliant: Newspaper staff work from branded café, open to the public