Food Links, 09.10.2013
- The implications of the US government shutdown for the FDA’s food inspection programme. (Speaking of which, cake or debt ceiling?)
- A history of Russia‘s problem with alcohol.
- The US needs a Robin Hood tax to fund food stamps.
- ‘The post-food-bank model has to be based on relationships, not transactions.’
- The largest food fraud in US history.
- Big Soda’s role in land grabs.
- Has China bought land in the Ukraine to grow food?
- The Svalbard seed vault.
- ‘wild vegetation growing on former USSR farming lands has sucked up approximately 50 million tons of carbon every year since 1990.’
- Is it possible to produce foie gras humanely?
- A new supermarket which will sell only food past its sell-by date.
- Canada’s Maple Syrup Gang comes to a sticky end.
- ‘When Paleo-diet advocate Professor Tim Noakes has nightmares, it is probably the Gatsby that appears before him.’
- Americans are eating three times as much cheese as they did in the 1970s.
- The researchers who tested Britain’s wartime diet.
- Duffingate.
- ‘top colleges are locked in an amenities-spending arms race – in which catering to foodies, health nuts and gluten-shunners is a major theater of war.’
- A fantastic web exhibition on recipe books, cooking, and domesticity.
- Chewing gum wrappers from Israel, Japan, and the United States.
- Arthur Guinness – of Guinness – was a spy for the British.
- Burger King’s ‘healthy‘ chips.
- John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats talks about goats.
- Shifting attitudes towards oysters.
- Appalling photographs of tinned meat.
- Charles Ranhofer, late nineteenth-century New York’s most famous chef.
- A loaf of bread from the first century CE.
- Grape focaccia.
- A fascinating interview with a recipe tester.
- The Senegalese roots of southern cooking.
- Famous writers‘ favourite recipes.
- ‘While splashes of the bright red soup were found at the scene, it could not be immediately confirmed whether the bear had indeed not used a spoon.’
- The best countries to be a vegetarian.
- Twenty-one cooking tips.
- What your coffee preference says about you.
- Cairo‘s street food.
- Butter aerobics.
- The rise of the water sommelier.
- Is it possible to trademark the name of a soup?
- Photographs of a week’s groceries in different countries.
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