Food Links, 25.01.2012
Niger faces famine. Again.
The role of Glencore in the international food chain.
Badaude designs a sausage menu.
Awesome lunchboxes.
How to make orange beer.
A history of daft diets.
How smart are smart fridges?
Climate change and beer.
How to sell a burger.
The science of taste.
Claufoutis by Virginia Woolf; Chaucer’s onion tart; and a recipe for lamb with dill sauce by Raymond Chandler: famous authors of literary fiction re-imagined as food writers.
Paula Deen’s most egregrious recipes.
The amazing history of the bendy straw.
Opening a bottle of wine…with a shoe.
Cutlery as jewellery.
Cleaning up the Mexican dairy industry.
Cocktails exploding in slow motion.
Sex, death, and kefir.
The British government’s food buying standards are worse than McDonald’s.
In praise of my favourite fruit: quinces.
An interview with Heston Blumenthal.
A new hangover cure?
Big food opposes measures to encourage American children to eat more fruit and vegetables.
Decoding famous recipes.
Nerdalicious – a food blog for nerds.