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Food Links, 31.12.2014

  • ‘millions of the poorest Britons are struggling to get sufficient calories to maintain their body weight for the first time since the Second World War’.
  • Using cellphone data to track food consumption.
  • Rising temperatures are changing the fish available in Britain’s waters.
  • Food stamps are big business.
  • China’s flying pig market.
  • Survivor stock bees.
  • The politics of drinking water.
  • A hospital in France opens a wine bar.
  • Thai hospital food.
  • The London gentrification pub crawl.
  • Concept restaurants do not foster sustainable cities.
  • Become a vegetarian and save the world.
  • Is organic food really healthier than non-organic?
  • McDonald’s opens a hipster cafe in Sydney.
  • Japan’s chip shortage has ended.
  • ‘Kenyans’ appetite for fried food and cheap frying oil is stalling the country’s urgent efforts to build a modern electrical grid’.
  • Community, not guerrilla, gardening. (Thanks, mum!)
  • Mrs Gorbachev gives Mrs Thatcher five hundred recipes for potatoes.
  • Suspended coffee.
  • 3D printed food.
  • How to translate a recipe: parts one and two.
  • Nut butters.
  • Food trends to end.
  • Pairing sake with western cuisines.
  • An anthropologist on food porn.
  • A restaurant offering discounts for prayers.
  • A guide to kitchen knives.
  • Cooking with weed.
  • Baking with vegetables.
  • Women’s growing enthusiasm for whisky.
  • The Eiffel Tower as a unit of measurement for cheese.
  • Shameeg Fagodien, Camps Bay ice cream seller.
  • The Wonder Bag.
  • Danny Bowien reopens Mission Chinese Food.
  • How to make marshmallow fluff.
  • How to make hard ginger beer.
  • How to make gin and tonic.
  • How to reheat pizza.
  • How to prevent freezer burn.
  • How to have a healthy hangover.
  • Eat more squirrel.
  • Adding air to food.
  • Tolstoy’s macaroni cheese.
  • Foraging on the Oregon coast.
  • Kant was wrong about food.
  • Authors drinking.
  • Veganuary.
  • Eating in restaurants in the US in the 1840s.
  • Best vegetarian recipe books.
  • Birch beer.
  • Christopher Hitchens on drinking.
  • Drink more Moldovan wine.
  • Scientific cures for hangovers.
  • Thomas Pynchon’s recipe for the first British pizza.
4 Comments Post a comment
  1. jalatamelon #

    I love the name of your blog 🙂

    December 31, 2014
  2. I’m so glad we don’t have any opportunity to eat more squirrel in Australia. Happy New Year!

    January 1, 2015
    • I was thinking the same! Happy new year to you too.
      -Sarah

      January 1, 2015

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