Food Links, 24.08.2011
David Chang’s new food magazine, Lucky Peach, looks absolutely amazing.
Spain’s gastro burglars strike again!
Photographs of the last meal ever served at El Bulli. (It reopens in 2014 as a think tank.)
Niger and Somalia: A Tale of Two Famines.
On Beekeeping without Borders in Afghanistan.
Participation in the United States’s food stamp programme is at a record high.
American bread packaging from the 1940s and 1950s.
This is such a brilliant idea: Eat Your Books helps you to find recipes in your cook book collection.
Consider pasta.
The El Bulli dish name generator.
On the American government’s efforts to regulate the food industry.
This is fascinating: a new study published by the FAO argues that global demand for edible oils and cereals is actually slowing down. This means that high food prices are not the result of increased demand from China and India.
How to make Viking heather beer. (I imagine that one could use fynbos in South Africa?)
Tangerine and Cinnamon 
I remember having heather beer a couple of times in Scotland — & also at the Michigan beerfest. It always seems to taste vaguely mead-like, and I’ve tended to find it weirdly soporific.
How fascinating. The only odd-ingredient-beer I’ve ever had was raspberry beer in a London pub once. Utterly, utterly dire.