Food Links, 02.04.2014
- Eat more fat. Fat-free food is very bad for you. Don’t bake with Splenda. Don’t eat more fat. Don’t be too thin. Eat more fruit and veg. Eat whatever you like.
- Become a vegetarian to combat climate change. Vegetarians have worse health than omnivores.
- Climate change should be reframed as a food issue.
- In the US, a ‘black child age 2 to 5 is more than three times as likely to be obese as a white child that age. Hispanic children in that age group are nearly five times as likely to be obese.’
- Aid and the new colonisation of Africa.
- A world map of childhood malnutrition.
- Is Monsanto evil?
- How the world’s armies are fed.
- There could be a global coffee shortage. Climate change may wipe out coffee plantations in Central and South America, making coffee more expensive.
- Sales of soft drinks continue to decline.
- Coffee pods are very bad for the environment.
- Innovative food companies.
- The Chinese government’s crackdown on corruption and extravagant living is having repercussions for high-end restaurants.
- Star Wars cupcakes.
- Eat salt, eggs, and chocolate.
- On kimchi.
- Offending bread in Russia.
- Growing food underneath Clapham. (Thanks, Raffaella!)
- ‘As most people would be aware, this mango is three storeys high, about 10 metres high, and weighs seven to 10 tonnes, so it’s very surprising that it’s gone.’
- A woman called 911 over an undercooked waffle.
- Rules for photographing food in restaurants.
- Hestom Blumenthal’s Fat Duck moves to Australia. René Redzepi’s Noma moves to Japan.
- A menu printed the wrong way.
- Edible water containers.
- Raw milk from a vending machine.
- The American cafes which take milk seriously.
- On muldoshin.
- Food-themed April Fools’ jokes.
- Photographs of Victory Gardens.
- A review of Rachel Laudan’s Cuisine and Empire.
- How to pronounce ‘croissant‘ in America.
- Klimt cake.
- Most of the New Yorker‘s artists are not vegetarian.
- Gardening while commuting.
- The Captain’s Chicken.
- Klingon beer.
- ‘there’s one ghost who has taken an industrious approach, choosing to operate a creepy Coca-Cola machine on an innocuous corner in Seattle’s Capitol Hill.’
- How to make blancmange.
- Beer brewed from trees.
- Do not make this cake.
- Goats are very intelligent.
- Beautiful wooden spoons.
- Drinkers in art.
- In praise of kale.
- Literary drinking spots.
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