Food Links, 18.09.2013
- The political, economic, and ethical implications of eating out.
- Sobering statistics around advertising food to children.
- Analysing hunger in Zimbabwe.
- Debating GM.
- The return of the short-haired bumblebee.
- Does artificial meat have a future?
- Where America’s fresh produce comes from.
- Is it possible to farm salmon sustainably?
- How fridges are contributing to climate change.
- Scarcity ‘puts people in a kind of cognitive tunnel, limiting what they are able to see. It depletes their self-control. It makes them more impulsive and sometimes a bit dumb.’
- How Chinese demand for pecan nuts is transforming Texan agriculture.
- What entomology can bring to the table: an infographic.
- Thoughts on salad, from 1615.
- Saffron salt.
- The rise and rise of bluefin tuna.
- ‘Why does it give me such a bad dose of the pip? Is it … the insistence that they’re purveying “cucina povera” (a style of cooking born of extreme Italian poverty)? Meat is rarely used in this; and, if it is, it’s of the innards and extremities variety.’
- The illegal vodka pipeline.
- Purple sweet potatoes could be used for food dyes.
- Guardian readers share photographs of their breakfasts.
- Fine art cakes. (Thanks, Mum!)
- Vintage Chinese restaurant menus.
- Weird pizza toppings.
- The results of an OED appeal for references to Earl Grey tea.
- An alphabet of potentially deadly foods.
- Flavour connections.
- ‘Part of [Stalin’s] sunniness mandate was the creation of a Soviet socialist food canon – source of all the meat patties (kotleti), mayonnaise-laden salads, and spicier fare from ethnic republics that would fuel the USSR for its next 50-plus years.’ (Thanks, Nafisa!)
- Accra’s first farmers’ market.
- The best butchers in Bohemia.
- The difficulties of running a fast-food restaurant in France.
- Fad diets are really very silly indeed.
- How serving temperature influences the way food tastes.
- Where to buy cronuts in South Africa.
- ‘So onto a play set inside a giant Emmental: Cheese, an absurdist allegory of the financial crisis.’
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