Food Links, 02.10.2013
- Remembering Marcella Hazan: she had two doctorates; she introduced Italian cooking to the United States; she was an excellent teacher; she ‘gave confidence‘ to Julian Barnes; and her famous tomato sauce.
- Charles Standing and Sonia Cabano are organising a food and forage day on 12 October. They’ll forage for food in the Cape Town CBD and Sea Point, and will then return home to cook the spoils. Get in touch with Charles if you’d like to go along.
- Children in some Cape Town schools are going hungry because the Peninsula Schools Feeding Programme lost its tender to provide meals.
- What the Republican vote to cut the food stamp programme, and support for the Farm Bill, says about the state of the party.
- The South African cabinet has approved a bill to ban alcohol advertising.
- Hunger is not caused by overpopulation.
- How calcium can increase maple syrup production.
- Fact-checking Dr Oz’s dubious claims about superfoods.
- Should we eat less sugar?
- David Cameron’s breadmaker.
- ‘A coconut has been detained by Maldivian police on suspicion of vote-rigging in a key presidential election.’
- The washday dinner problem.
- Rachel Laudan’s six essential texts for writing a global history of food.
- ‘quite a number of the [football]] fans carrying paraphernalia such as watermelons, loaves of bread, landline telephones, cabbages and giant dolls.’
- Where to eat in Shanghai.
- The London Review of Breakfasts samples a cronut.
- Recipes using mustard.
- The Mail and Guardian‘s restaurant critic reflects on his first five years of reviewing.
- The appeal of the hotel minibar.
- Frank Sinatra in his $100,000 kitchen.
- Why Szechuan pepper makes your lips tingle.
- ‘There are more breakfast taco establishments in Austin than there are Starbucks in Manhattan’.
- Recipes for brunch.
- The world’s biggest Halal food festival.
- A bottle of beer that costs $2,000.
- Words food writers should be banned from using.
- How to make sourdough bread.
- GQ‘s selection of the best things to eat and drink in the US.
- Hall’s Coca Wine: The Elixir of Life!
- A bar named after Christopher Hitchens.
- Moon farms to banish starvation.
- Facts about the Food Network.
- Revolting cupcakes.
- Photographs of snack vans.
- ‘The idea of the lonely gelato-guzzler is astonishingly persistent.’
- A photograph of Truth Coffee, Cape Town’s steampunk cafe.
- Mini M, the permanent pop-up supermarket.
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Tangerine and Cinnamon 
“The coconut, described as “young”” – that is brilliant!
It is!