Food Links, 04.12.2013
- Food stamps have reduced poverty in the US.
- Statistics for malnutrition and death from starvation in Africa have been exaggerated.
- The power of Coke in Swaziland.
- ‘Cooking attracts roaches. Nobody realises that.’
- Urban bee-keeping will not address the decline in bee populations.
- The Norwegian army embraces Meat-free Mondays.
- American turkeys have been getting heavier.
- Can fish farms be organic?
- Depression influences how we taste food.
- ‘Milk from a variety of animals including camels, llamas and moose should be more widely used to counteract high cow milk prices due to growing demand for dairy in the developing world.’
- There is little evidence to suggest that eating placenta is nutritious.
- Havana’s food black market.
- Why juice cleanses are a bad idea.
- China’s enthusiasm for pecan nuts.
- Michael Pollan‘s dilemma.
- Vitamin Water really isn’t all that good for you.
- How to ensure a hangover.
- A list of food associated with jobs.
- The cockentrice. (With thanks to Nic Dawes.)
- Rock stars pose with their favourite food.
- Signs you’ve worked in a restaurant kitchen.
- The shepherd who’s on Twitter.
- Good for laying down.
- Why turkey – and not beef – is the centrepiece for Thanksgiving.
- Soda. Pop. Coke.
- Photographs printed on marshmallows.
- Myths and legends around the plum pudding.
- Go gluten-free in northern India.
- The challenges facing food truck owners.
- Jane Austen and food.
- What Duke Ellington ate.
- Sufganiyot.
- The best supermarket mince pies in the UK.
- Using a beer bottle to make music.
- What people drank during the Middle Ages.
- Hot pancakes doused with Coca-Cola – one of Haruki Murakami‘s best-known dishes.
- The Bourbon family tree.
- ‘Nothing is prepared to order, and everything is served in a triangle-shaped brown-paper package.’
- On soju.
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Tangerine and Cinnamon 
Rather than developing camel, llama, and moose dairy industries, a quicker and less expensive way of increasing the availability of milk would be greater use of plant-based milks – almond milk, soy milk, and rice milk, for example.