Food Links, 23.04.2014
- About 27% of food insecure people – including 32% of food insecure children – live in households which are ineligible for food stamps’.
- Fast food restaurant workers are striking back.
- ‘Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term’.
- What happened when a school district stopped providing chocolate milk.
- Restaurants in poor areas tend to sell unhealthy food.
- Racism and obesity.
- The Mail on Sunday‘s attempt to smear foodbanks has backfired spectacularly.
- Cow insurance.
- The failed rebranding of fast food chains.
- The drought in California.
- An Argentinian ranch sticking to traditional farming methods.
- Should farmers grow alfalfa?
- Gendered toys in Happy Meals.
- How to trick people into eating more.
- Seychelles beer production halts for eleven weeks.
- How much wine should we drink?
- Reintroducing veal.
- Ikea introduces vegetarian meatballs. Haagen-Dazs introduces vegetable ice cream.
- The Russian supermarkets of Berlin.
- Where to eat in Peru.
- ‘The bumblebee is the most charming of the lot; even its Latin name, Bombus, is amusing’.
- The future of food criticism.
- Atlanta‘s best restaurants.
- Powdered alcohol.
- More people are drinking tea in France.
- Dr Bobb’s Kitschen.
- When vanilla wasn’t white.
- How to use up leftover hard boiled eggs. And Easter eggs.
- A year without sugar.
- A brief history of General Tso’s chicken.
- ‘Hunting humans for sport? I’ve tried it. Sure. But I still won’t eat at Chili’s.’
- Wine myths debunked.
- Beautiful chickens.
- ‘In putting coffee at the heart of our lives we are returning to how things used to be.’
- The rise of milk substitutes.
- How to make tortillas.
- Ancient Rome’s tap water was contaminated with lead.
- ‘In the grand tradition of such things, the veneer of civilization has quickly eroded, and the lime-deprived populace is left clamoring, bestial, ruthless.’
- How to make a notebook out of a paper bag.
- Under Julia Child’s kitchen counter.
- Sellfridges is no longer selling fridges.
- Cleaning with vinegar.
- How to tell if eggs are still fresh. (Thanks, mum!)
- You can make graphene at home.
- On saffron.
- A sushi chef’s guide to eating sushi.
- David Bowie, with pig.
- What restaurants do badly.
- How to clean crabs.
- An interview with Allan Jenkins, editor of Observer Food Monthly.
- ‘T.C. Clissold, cook for Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910 British expedition, brought seal meat within kissing distance of haute cuisine.’
- On Renfield syndrome.
- Indispensable utensils.
- The trendy bar name generator.
- Coffee keeps you honest.
- ‘the Keyneses were considered somewhat miserly when it came to food; they once served three grouse to 11 guests’.
- Make your own earth cake.
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