Food Links, 17.10.2012
The UNEP report for World Food Day.
Bankers must be stopped from betting on food.
The number of people on food aid doubles in the UK.
Are we headed towards a food crisis?
Starbucks sells bad coffee, dodges taxes.
There’s been an increase in the amount of arsenic in American rice.
To match the Walton heirs’ fortunes, you’d need to work at Walmart for seven million years.
Farmers begin a mass slaughter as the cost of animal feed rises.
Drought in Spain is pushing up the price of olive oil.
A study of the meals chosen by prisoners on death row.
How to attract bees into cities.
Reflecting on the recent Tim Noakes scandal.
Mushrooming and the man who saved Prospect Park.
Sandor Ellix Katz: fermentation enthusiast.
A restaurant staffed by prisoners has just opened in Wales.
Reflections on being a vegetarian.
The effects of nuclear explosions on beer.
Foreign bodies in food.
The Los Angeles Times‘s new food quiz.
Breakfast in Argentina and Chile.
The £250,000 kitchen.
Accounting for America’s new enthusiasm for avocado.
Amazingly wonderful surreal advertisements for pork, leeks, cress, asparagus, and celery. (Thanks, Mum!)
What makes chocolate so addictive?
Coping with lactose intolerance.
Lawrence Norfolk‘s top ten seventeenth-century recipe books.
The science of peeling hard-boiled eggs.
The Downton Abbey cookbook.
Eating in Burma.
Still lifes of food in art. (Thanks, Jane-Anne!)
Pubs and bars from the past.
Convincing fake meat?
Tim Hortons opens in Dubai.
Bring me the head of Ronald McDonald.
A recipe for carrot cake.
Favourite reader recipes in the New York Times.
Pairing novels with cocktails.
The science of baking with butter.
The middle-class hierarchy of sparkling water.
Matthew Fort reviews Nigellissima.
Why does everything taste like chicken?
How to make your own Nutella.
A blog dedicated to the drinks in Hemingway‘s writing.
Photographing famous food scenes in literature.
A toaster that toasts bread AND forecasts the weather.
How to peel ginger with a spoon.
The state of the jelly salad in America.
Tangerine and Cinnamon 