Food Links, 22.08.2012
Raj Patel on the banking industry’s long history of profiting from drought.
Glencore admits that the US drought is good for business.
What are the health implications of farmers’ use of vaccines on their animals?
The end of the low-fat fad.
Cars, supermarkets, and feeding the city.
The world’s hottest chilli seems to be offering some Indian farmers a route out of poverty.
How the brain creates flavour.
Still lifes of Olympic athletes’ diets.
Vegetables in exchange for recycling?
Tunisian bakers in France.
What will we be eating in twenty years? (Thanks, Inna!)
Photographs of the first coffee shop in Khayelitsha.
Eating Nigerian cuisine in London.
Learning how to eat in South Korea.
A review of Jenny Rosenstrach’s Dinner: A Love Story.
Feuding in the Greek yogurt industry.
Recipes from famous writers.
A guide to Afghan food.
London’s best food trucks.
The rise of the food paparazzi.
David Simon on food, eating, and his father.
The world’s best edible coffee cup: made out of cookie.
McDonald’s in India.
The Middle Class Handbook on prosecco.
Easily portable soy sauce.
On running a bakery in Portland, Oregan.
You can never have too many blackberries.
The New York Times on where to eat in…Brixton.
A blog for waiters, waitresses, and those who do the serving in restaurants.
Ice cream truck turf wars in New York.
How to make your own mustard.
Gather – a new journal of food writing.
How to make chocolate fondue.
The rise of the doughnut.
How waiters make punters part with their money.
These are courtesy of my Mum:
The World Carrot Museum.
Odd things to do with watermelons.
Lunch hour in New York City.
So who invented bubble tea?
Japan bans raw beef liver in restaurants.
Tangerine and Cinnamon 