Food Links, 11.09.2013
- Why employees of fast food chains are on strike again in the US.
- Do Africans drink too much?
- The ten companies that control the food chain. (Thanks, Lize-Mare!)
- ‘It is not a good time to be an American pig.’
- Crop-eating pests are on the move.
- How Greek yogurt caught Big Food off guard.
- ‘You can’t have it all, but you can have cake.’
- The Australian election and sausages.
- ‘Saying that a food is “like crack”…is intended to be an edgy way of emphasising how instantly gratifying it is, and how difficult it is to stop eating it once it’s in front of you. Unfortunately, all it really does is demonstrate how out of touch and callously classist foodie culture has become.’
- Water in the ancient world.
- The row over chocolate museums in Mexico.
- ‘Meat is murder. Vegetarianism is genocide.’
- Detasseling corn in the Midwest.
- Why are there holes in Jarlsberg?
- Men drinking beer, c.1845.
- What did the people who built the Egyptian pyramids eat?
- Comparing cooks and authors, in 1735.
- The French Fry Burger.
- Behind the scenes in coffee warehouses.
- How to make your own halloumi cheese.
- Facebook-flavoured ice cream.
- Jeremy Bentham’s prison pie.
- The Espresso Mushroom Company.
- A Möbius cake.
- Where to eat breakfast in Paris.
- Ann Friedman adapts Diana Vreeland’s rules for lunch.
- How to make perfect coffee.
- A terrifying pineapple.
- These links are courtesy of my mum:
- Malawi sells a jet to avert a food crisis.
- The history of chopsticks in Japan.
- ‘the nature of research into early modern, English-language recipe writing, collecting and publishing’
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